Valentine's Day Dark Chocolate Cake
delish.com · 2018 · 1
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
Less egg than 82% of recipes and less leavening than 78%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 82% of recipes: 27% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
- Less leavening than 78% of recipes: 3.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1/2 lb. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, plus more for greasing the pan227 g
- 2 c. sugar≈ 400 g
- 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 3 c. all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 2/3 c. Unsweetened cocoa powder≈ 57 g
- 2 tsp. baking soda≈ 12 g
- 1/4 tsp. fine sea salt≈ 1.5 g
- 2 c. (16-oz.) sour cream≈ 460 g
flour 375 gbatter 1641 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.
- Cocoa15% · 34th percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar107% · 29th percentile · median 142%
- Fat61% · 48th percentile · median 62%
- Egg27% · 17th percentile · median 46%
- Liquid123% · 34th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening3.2% · 19th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0.4% · 39th percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 35 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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