Sourdough Chocolate Cake
baking-sense.com · 2021 · 12 servings
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
More sugar than 94% of recipes and more egg than 94%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 94% of recipes: 229% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 142%.
- More egg than 94% of recipes: 101% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%, about twice as much.
- Less leavening than 94% of recipes: 2.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%, about half as much.
- More fat than 85% of recipes: 114% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 62%.
Ingredients (11)
- 2 oz Dutch process cocoa powder (½ cup)57 g
- 4 oz boiling water (½ cup)113 g
- 7 oz cake flour (1 ½ cups, see note)199 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- ½ teaspoon table salt≈ 3 g
- 8 oz vegetable oil (1 cup)227 g
- 4 large eggs≈ 200 g
- 4 oz whole milk (½ cup)113 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 16 oz granulated sugar (2 cups)454 g
- 8 oz sourdough discard (1 cup)227 g
flour 199 gbatter 1609 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 357 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Cocoa29% · 68th percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar229% · 95th percentile · median 142%
- Fat114% · 86th percentile · median 62%
- Egg101% · 95th percentile · median 46%
- Liquid114% · 30th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening2.3% · 5th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt1.5% · 63rd percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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