Easy Chocolate Cake
chefsavvy.com · 2022 · 9
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
No egg, unlike 84% of recipes and less fat than 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No egg at all, where 84% of recipes use some (most of those 40 to 67% of the flour weight).
- Less fat than 86% of recipes: 39% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 62%.
- Less cocoa than 75% of recipes: 12% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 23%, about half as much.
- Less leavening than 78% of recipes: 3.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
Ingredients (12)
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour≈ 188 g
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa≈ 22 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1/2 cup brown sugar≈ 110 g
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar≈ 100 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1 tablespoon vinegar≈ 15 g
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil≈ 73 g
- 1 cup coffee≈ 237 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips≈ 255 g
- 1/2 cup heavy cream (warmed)≈ 119 g
flour 188 gbatter 761 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.
- Cocoa12% · 24th percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar112% · 33rd percentile · median 142%
- Fat39% · 13th percentile · median 62%
- Egg0% · 8th percentile · median 46%
- Liquid126% · 39th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening3.2% · 19th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt1.6% · 67th percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 40 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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