Chocolate Carrot Cake
Food Network Kitchen · foodnetwork.com · 2016 · 8 to 10 servings
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
More fat than 78% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 78% of recipes: 96% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%.
- Carrot in the middle half of recipes: 88% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
Ingredients (17)
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for the pans≈ 313 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1 teaspoon apple pie spice≈ 2.6 g
- 1/4 teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar≈ 110 g
- 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil≈ 273 g
- 4 large eggs≈ 200 g
- 1/2 cup applesauce≈ 128 g
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2 1/2 cups finely grated carrots (about 4 medium carrots)≈ 275 g
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream≈ 357 g
- 24 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped680 g
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter≈ 28 g
- 16 marshmallowsn/a
- 5 to 6 drops orange gel food coloring≈ 2.2 g
flour 313 gbatter 2689 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.
- Carrot88% · 27th percentile · median 107%
- Sugar131% · 66th percentile · median 107%
- Fat96% · 79th percentile · median 78%
- Egg64% · 39th percentile · median 68%
- Spice0.8% · 28th percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening4.9% · 52nd percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0.5% · 49th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 40 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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