Brazilian carrot cake
bbcgoodfood.com · 2022 · Serves 8-10
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
More sugar than 97% of recipes and less egg than 97%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 97% of recipes: 177% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
- Less egg than 97% of recipes: 39% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 68%.
- Less leavening than 96% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%, about half as much.
- No spice at all, where 78% of recipes use some (most of those 1.5 to 3% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (9)
- 250ml vegetable oil plus extra for the tin≈ 230 g
- 260g plain flour260 g
- 400g caster sugar400 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 2 medium carrots (around 250g), peeled and roughly chopped250 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
- 250ml milk≈ 258 g
- 30g cocoa powder30 g
- 60g caster sugar60 g
flour 260 gbatter 1593 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 260 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Carrot96% · 33rd percentile · median 107%
- Sugar177% · 98th percentile · median 107%
- Fat89% · 69th percentile · median 78%
- Egg39% · 2nd percentile · median 68%
- Spice0% · 11th percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening1.8% · 2nd percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 45 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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