Sour Cream Carrot Cake
Sevilleoranges · nigella.com · Serves: 6
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
Less sugar than 93% of recipes and less egg than 93%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 93% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
- Less egg than 93% of recipes: 47% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 68%.
- Less carrot than 80% of recipes: 81% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
- Less fat than 80% of recipes: 51% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%.
Ingredients (15)
- 130 grams self-raising flour130 g
- 85 grams plain flour85 g
- ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda≈ 3 g
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg≈ 2.6 g
- 130 grams brown sugar130 g
- 120 millilitres vegetable oil≈ 111 g
- 2 eggs (lightly beaten)≈ 100 g
- vanilla (add to the eggs)n/a
- 142 millilitres sour cream≈ 138 g
- 375 millilitres carrots (grated)≈ 174 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 60 grams cream cheese (light is OK)60 g
- 20 grams butter (at room temperature)20 g
- 1 lemon (grated zest of)n/a
- 250 millilitres icing sugar≈ 127 g
flour 215 gbatter 876 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.
- Carrot81% · 19th percentile · median 107%
- Sugar61% · 7th percentile · median 107%
- Fat51% · 19th percentile · median 78%
- Egg47% · 7th percentile · median 68%
- Spice2.4% · 68th percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening4.4% · 39th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 45 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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