Carrot Cake Recipe | Hersheyland
hersheyland.com · 2026 · 1 cake
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
More salt than 75% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 68%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 139% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
Ingredients (13)
- 1 1/2 tsps vanilla extract≈ 6 g
- 1/2 cup walnuts chopped≈ 60 g
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 188 g
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil≈ 164 g
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar≈ 150 g
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar≈ 110 g
- 1 1/4 tsps baking soda≈ 8 g
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
- 2 cups shredded carrot≈ 220 g
- 1 2/3 cups REESE'S Peanut Butter Chips or 2 cups (12 oz pkg.) HERSHEY'S SPECIAL DARK Chocolate Chips, HERSHEY'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips or HERSHEY'S Mini Chips Semi-Sweet Chocolate (10 oz pkg.)≈ 283 g
- 3 eggs≈ 150 g
- 1/2 tsp salt≈ 3 g
- Additional walnuts chopped (optional)n/a
flour 188 gbatter 1344 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.
- Carrot117% · 57th percentile · median 107%
- Sugar139% · 71st percentile · median 107%
- Fat87% · 64th percentile · median 78%
- Egg80% · 76th percentile · median 68%
- Spice1.4% · 38th percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening4% · 30th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt1.6% · 77th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 35 to 40 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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