Best Carrot Cake Recipe
Gemma Stafford · biggerbolderbaking.com · 2020 · 12 people
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
Less egg than 85% of recipes and no salt, unlike 70%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 85% of recipes: 51% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 68%.
- No salt at all, where 70% of recipes use some (most of those 0.3 to 1.8% of the flour weight).
- More fat than 78% of recipes: 97% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%.
- Less leavening than 79% of recipes: 3.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
Ingredients (11)
- 4 large eggs, (room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 1 ¾ cups (14 oz/395 g) granulated sugar395 g
- 1 ¾ cups (14 fl oz/395 ml) vegetable oil≈ 382 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2 ¾ cups (14 oz/395 g) all-purpose395 g
- 3 teaspoons baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
- 3 ½ cups (14 oz/400g) carrots (, peeled and finely grated)400 g
- ½ cup (4 oz/115 g) raisins115 g
- Orange and green food coloringn/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 recipe Best-Ever Cream Cheese Frostingn/a
flour 395 gbatter 1907 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.
- Carrot101% · 44th percentile · median 107%
- Sugar100% · 43rd percentile · median 107%
- Fat97% · 79th percentile · median 78%
- Egg51% · 14th percentile · median 68%
- Spice0.7% · 26th percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening3.5% · 19th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 340°F / 170°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 70 to 80 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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