Ultimate Carrot Cake

Kim Lange · thebakingchocolatess.com · 2018 · 8 Servings

Against 260 carrot cake recipes

More carrot than 95% of recipes and more leavening than 95%.

How it compares

Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.

More carrot than 95% of recipes: 181% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
More leavening than 95% of recipes: 8.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
More sugar than 81% of recipes: 160% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
More salt than 91% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.6%, about 4 times as much.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

1 cup pecans (4 ounces)≈ 110 g
2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
2 teaspoons baking soda≈ 12 g
1 teaspoon cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
1 cup vegetable oil (or canola oil)≈ 218 g
1/2 cup buttermilk≈ 122 g
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract (or vanilla bean paste (Nielsen Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste))≈ 6 g
4 large eggs (room temp)≈ 200 g
2 cups sugar≈ 400 g
1 pound carrots (peeled and coarsely shredded)454 g

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

2 sticks unsalted butter (softened)≈ 226 g
2 8-ounce packages cream cheese (softened)227 g
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract (or vanilla bean paste (Nielsen Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste))≈ 13 g
6 cups confectioners' sugar≈ 720 g
2 -4 tbsp whipping cream or milk≈ 45 g
1 - 2 large pinch of salt≈ 0.6 g

flour 250 gbatter 1790 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 260 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: carrot, sugar, fat, egg, spice, leavening, salt.