Carrot Cake Recipe
janespatisserie.com · 2015 · 12 slices
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
More leavening than 94% of recipes and more spice than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 94% of recipes: 8.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
- More spice than 90% of recipes: 3.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.9%, about twice as much.
- No salt at all, where 70% of recipes use some (most of those 0.3 to 1.8% of the flour weight).
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 68%.
Ingredients (18)
- 225 ml sunflower oil≈ 207 g
- 5 medium eggs≈ 220 g
- 275 g light brown sugar275 g
- 300 g grated carrots300 g
- 100 g raisins (optional)100 g
- zest of 1 orangen/a
- 275 g self raising flour275 g
- 1.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda≈ 9 g
- 2 tsp mixed spice≈ 5 g
- 1 tsp ground ginger≈ 2.6 g
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
- 100 g walnuts/chopped pecans (optional)100 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 250 g unsalted butter (room temperature)250 g
- 500 g icing sugar500 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 - 3 tbsp boiling water≈ 30 g
- chopped nutsn/a
- carrot shapes/sprinklesn/a
flour 275 gbatter 1497 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Carrot109% · 52nd percentile · median 107%
- Sugar100% · 43rd percentile · median 107%
- Fat75% · 46th percentile · median 78%
- Egg80% · 76th percentile · median 68%
- Spice3.8% · 90th percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening8.3% · 95th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 35 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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