Cómo hacer el auténtico carrot cake. Receta

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Esther Clemente · directoalpaladar.com · 2015 · 6

Against 260 carrot cake recipes

Less sugar than 95% of recipes and more spice than 92%.

How it compares

Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.

Less sugar than 95% of recipes: 54% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%, about half as much.
More spice than 92% of recipes: 4.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.9%, about twice as much.
More egg than 86% of recipes: 83% 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).

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

flour 240 gbatter 1100 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 260 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: carrot, sugar, fat, egg, spice, leavening, salt.