Chocolate Cake for Two!
janespatisserie.com · 2023 · 2 people
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
More leavening than 96% of recipes and less liquid than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 96% of recipes: 8.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
- Less liquid than 91% of recipes: 69% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 138%, about half as much.
- More cocoa than 81% of recipes: 33% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 23%.
- No salt at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 0.9 to 2.3% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (13)
- 75 g self-raising flour75 g
- 25 g cocoa powder25 g
- 100 g light brown soft sugar100 g
- 1/2 tsp baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 60 ml vegetable oil≈ 55 g
- 1 medium egg≈ 44 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 50 ml whole milk≈ 52 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 60 g dark chocolate60 g
- 60 g milk chocolate60 g
- 60 ml double cream≈ 60 g
- strawberriesn/a
- freeze dried raspberriesn/a
flour 75 gbatter 357 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Cocoa33% · 83rd percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar133% · 46th percentile · median 142%
- Fat74% · 62nd percentile · median 62%
- Egg59% · 68th percentile · median 46%
- Liquid69% · 8th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening8.1% · 97th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 28 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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