Homemade Chocolate Cake
Val Goodrich · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · 15 servings
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
More salt than 82% of recipes and less leavening than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 82% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.1%, about twice as much.
- Less leavening than 83% of recipes: 3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.8%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2/3 cup butter, softened≈ 151 g
- 1-2/3 cups sugar≈ 333 g
- 3 large eggs, room temperature≈ 150 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 2/3 cup baking cocoa≈ 57 g
- 1-1/4 teaspoons baking soda≈ 8 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1-1/3 cups 2% milk≈ 325 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Confectioners' sugar or favorite frostingn/a
flour 250 gbatter 1281 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.
- Cocoa23% · 49th percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar133% · 46th percentile · median 142%
- Fat61% · 48th percentile · median 62%
- Egg60% · 71st percentile · median 46%
- Liquid130% · 44th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening3% · 16th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt2.4% · 86th percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 35 to 40 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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