Chocolate Sheet Cake
Nigella · nigella.com · Yields: 12 big squares, 24 bars or 48 after-dinner bites
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
Less sugar than 96% of recipes and less liquid than 94%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 96% of recipes: 67% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 142%, about half as much.
- Less liquid than 94% of recipes: 58% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 138%, about half as much.
- Less leavening than 96% of recipes: 2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%, about half as much.
- Less cocoa than 77% of recipes: 10% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 23%, about half as much.
Ingredients (16)
- 125 millilitres full fat milk or semi-skimmed / 2% milk≈ 129 g
- 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar or cider vinegar≈ 10 g
- 200 grams soft unsalted butter200 g
- 20 grams best-quality cocoa powder20 g
- 200 grams caster sugar200 g
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda≈ 6 g
- 1 pinch of salt≈ 0.4 g
- 300 grams plain flour300 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 50 grams soft unsalted butter50 g
- 3 tablespoons full fat milk or semi-skimmed / 2% milk≈ 46 g
- 2 tablespoons best-quality cocoa powder≈ 11 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 150 grams icing sugar (sieved)150 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- sprinkles of your choicen/a
flour 300 gbatter 1076 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.
- Cocoa10% · 22nd percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar67% · 3rd percentile · median 142%
- Fat83% · 68th percentile · median 62%
- Egg33% · 19th percentile · median 46%
- Liquid58% · 5th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening2% · 3rd percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0.1% · 32nd percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 33 minutes
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