Lunch Lady Chocolate Cake
plainchicken.com · 2021 · 24 people
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
More leavening than 99% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 99% of recipes: 9.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%, about twice as much.
- No chocolate, like 63% of recipes.
Ingredients (18)
- 15 Tbsp Crisco shortening≈ 192 g
- 2¼ cups plus 2 Tbsp sugar≈ 475 g
- 3½ large eggs≈ 175 g
- 1¾ cup water≈ 415 g
- 1 Tbsp vanilla≈ 13 g
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour≈ 313 g
- 14 Tbsp cocoa powder≈ 76 g
- 10 Tbsp instant non-fat dry milk powder≈ 43 g
- 1½ Tbsp plus ¼ tsp baking powder≈ 22 g
- 1½ tsp baking soda≈ 9 g
- ¾ tsp salt≈ 4.5 g
- 2½ Tbsp butter, (softened)≈ 36 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 3 Tbsp Crisco shortening≈ 38 g
- 3¾ cups powdered sugar≈ 450 g
- ⅛ tsp salt≈ 0.8 g
- 2 Tbsp instant non-fat dry milk powder≈ 9 g
- 10½ Tbsp cocoa powder≈ 57 g
- 5 Tbsp water≈ 74 g
flour 313 gbatter 1771 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.
- Cocoa24% · 54th percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar152% · 54th percentile · median 142%
- Fat73% · 61st percentile · median 62%
- Egg56% · 66th percentile · median 46%
- Liquid147% · 60th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening9.9% · 100th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt1.4% · 61st percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 22 to 25 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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