Self-Rising Chocolate Cake
King Arthur Baking · kingarthurbaking.com · 2 round 9", or 3 round 8" layers
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
No salt, unlike 69% of recipes and more egg than 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No salt at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 0.9 to 2.3% of the flour weight).
- More egg than 76% of recipes: 64% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
Ingredients (8)
- 6 tablespoons (85g) butter, at room temperature, at least 65°F85 g
- 6 tablespoons (74g) vegetable oil74 g
- 2 cups (397g) granulated sugar397 g
- 3/4 cup (63g) Dutch-process cocoa63 g
- 1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 4.2 g
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 200 g
- 2 3/4 cups (312g) King Arthur Unbleached Self-Rising Flour312 g
- 1 1/2 cups (340g) water340 g
flour 312 gbatter 1475 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.
- Cocoa20% · 46th percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar127% · 42nd percentile · median 142%
- Fat51% · 36th percentile · median 62%
- Egg64% · 77th percentile · median 46%
- Liquid109% · 27th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening5% · 54th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th 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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