Best Ever Chocolate Cake
spendwithpennies.com · 2019 · 12 servings
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
More leavening than 97% of recipes and more liquid than 92%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 97% of recipes: 8.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
- More liquid than 92% of recipes: 220% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 138%.
- More sugar than 81% of recipes: 183% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 142%.
- Cocoa in the middle half of recipes: 30% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 23%.
Ingredients (11)
- 2 cups granulated sugar≈ 400 g
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour≈ 219 g
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder≈ 65 g
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- 2 teaspoons baking soda≈ 12 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 cup milk≈ 244 g
- ½ cup vegetable oil≈ 109 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 cup boiling water≈ 237 g
flour 219 gbatter 1399 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.
- Cocoa30% · 73rd percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar183% · 84th percentile · median 142%
- Fat50% · 32nd percentile · median 62%
- Egg46% · 48th percentile · median 46%
- Liquid220% · 95th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening8.6% · 98th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt1.4% · 61st percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 35 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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