Carrot Cake Traybake!
janespatisserie.com · 2018 · 18 Slices!
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
More spice than 90% of recipes and more leavening than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More spice than 90% of recipes: 3.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.9%, about twice as much.
- More leavening than 91% of recipes: 8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
- Less egg than 81% of recipes: 55% 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).
Ingredients (20)
- 300 ml sunflower oil≈ 276 g
- 5 medium eggs≈ 220 g
- 350 g light brown sugar350 g
- 500 g grated carrots ((grated weight))500 g
- 150 g raisins150 g
- Zest of 2 orangesn/a
- 400 g self raising flour400 g
- 2 tsps bicarbonate of soda≈ 12 g
- 3 tsps mixed spice≈ 8 g
- 1.5 tsps ground ginger≈ 3.9 g
- 1.5 tsps ground cinnamon≈ 3.9 g
- 100 g chopped nuts100 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 125 g unsalted butter ((room temperature) )125 g
- 125 g icing sugar125 g
- 250 g full-fat cream cheese250 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice≈ 1.3 g
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger≈ 1.3 g
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon≈ 1.3 g
- carrot decorationsn/a
flour 400 gbatter 2024 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.
- Carrot125% · 68th percentile · median 107%
- Sugar88% · 33rd percentile · median 107%
- Fat69% · 36th percentile · median 78%
- Egg55% · 19th percentile · median 68%
- Spice3.9% · 91st percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening8% · 93rd percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 50 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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