Easy Carrot Cake
Silveira · nigella.com · Serves: 0
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
Less carrot than 97% of recipes and more sugar than 81%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less carrot than 97% of recipes: 49% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%, about half as much.
- More sugar than 81% of recipes: 160% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
- No spice at all, where 78% of recipes use some (most of those 1.5 to 3% of the flour weight).
- No salt at all, where 70% of recipes use some (most of those 0.3 to 1.8% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (6)
- 2 medium carrots≈ 122 g
- 2 cups superfine sugar≈ 400 g
- 1 cup vegetable oil≈ 218 g
- 4 medium eggs≈ 176 g
- 2 cups flour≈ 250 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
flour 250 gbatter 1180 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.
- Carrot49% · 3rd percentile · median 107%
- Sugar160% · 86th percentile · median 107%
- Fat87% · 64th percentile · median 78%
- Egg70% · 52nd percentile · median 68%
- Spice0% · 11th percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening5.5% · 67th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 40 minutes
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