One-Bowl Chocolate Cake
Fred Decker · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · 15 servings
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
More liquid than 78% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More liquid than 78% of recipes: 192% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 138%.
- Fat in the middle half of recipes: 87% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 62%.
Ingredients (12)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 2 cups sugar≈ 400 g
- 1/2 cup baking cocoa≈ 43 g
- 2 teaspoons baking soda≈ 12 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 2 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten≈ 100 g
- 1 cup canola oil≈ 218 g
- 1 cup buttermilk≈ 244 g
- 1 cup hot water≈ 237 g
- Colored sprinkles, optionaln/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Frosting of your choicen/a
flour 250 gbatter 1512 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.
- Cocoa17% · 39th percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate0% · 32nd percentile · median 0%
- Sugar160% · 65th percentile · median 142%
- Fat87% · 73rd percentile · median 62%
- Egg40% · 31st percentile · median 46%
- Liquid192% · 81st percentile · median 138%
- Leavening6.6% · 75th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt1.2% · 54th 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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