Carrot Cake
Felix (Simply Trini Cooking) · simplytrinicooking.com · 2009 · 16
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
More sugar than 96% of recipes and more leavening than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 96% of recipes: 176% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
- More leavening than 85% of recipes: 7.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
- No salt at all, where 70% of recipes use some (most of those 0.3 to 1.8% of the flour weight).
- Carrot in the middle half of recipes: 88% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
Ingredients (12)
- 2 cups all purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 2 tsp. baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda≈ 9 g
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon≈ 5 g
- 1/2 tsp. nutmeg≈ 1.3 g
- 2 cups brown sugar≈ 440 g
- 1 cup olive oil≈ 218 g
- 4 eggs≈ 200 g
- 8 oz. crushed pineapple227 g
- 2 cups grated carrot≈ 220 g
- 1/2 cup choppped nuts (walnuts, peanuts, and/ or almonds)≈ 60 g
- 1/2 tsp. grated orange rind≈ 2.5 g
flour 250 gbatter 1642 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.
- Carrot88% · 27th percentile · median 107%
- Sugar176% · 97th percentile · median 107%
- Fat87% · 64th percentile · median 78%
- Egg80% · 76th percentile · median 68%
- Spice2.6% · 73rd percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening7.3% · 86th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 35 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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