Cracker Barrel Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake

12tomatoes.com · Makes 12-16 slices

Against 357 chocolate cake recipes

More cocoa than 93% of recipes and less liquid than 96%.

How it compares

Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.

More cocoa than 93% of recipes: 43% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 23%.
Less liquid than 96% of recipes: 49% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 138%, about half as much.
Less leavening than 89% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%, about half as much.
No salt at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 0.9 to 2.3% of the flour weight).

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

1/2 cup butter≈ 114 g
1/2 cup vegetable oil≈ 109 g
1 cup Coca-Cola≈ 237 g
2 cup granulated sugar≈ 400 g
2 cup all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder≈ 65 g
1 tsp baking soda≈ 6 g
1/2 cup buttermilk (or combine 1/2 cup milk and 1 tsp lemon juice or white vinegar)≈ 122 g
2 eggs≈ 100 g
2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 8 g
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder≈ 43 g
1/2 cup Coca-Cola≈ 119 g

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

flour 250 gbatter 1572 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 357 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: cocoa, chocolate, sugar, fat, egg, liquid, leavening, salt.