Heritage Chocolate Cake Recipe | Hersheyland
hersheyland.com · 2024 · 1 cake
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
Close to the middle of 357 chocolate cake recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 60% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
- No chocolate, like 63% of recipes.
Ingredients (10)
- 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened≈ 151 g
- 1-3/4 cups sugar≈ 350 g
- 3 eggs≈ 150 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 1/2 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa≈ 43 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1 tsp baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1/2 tsp salt≈ 3 g
- 1-1/2 cups buttermilk or sour milk*≈ 366 g
flour 250 gbatter 1328 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.
- Cocoa17% · 39th percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar140% · 49th percentile · median 142%
- Fat61% · 48th percentile · median 62%
- Egg60% · 71st percentile · median 46%
- Liquid146% · 59th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening4.2% · 39th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt1.2% · 54th percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 35 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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