Easy Chocolate Cake Recipe (Single Layer, Beginner Friendly)
Aarthi · yummytummyaarthi.com · 2026 · 6 servings
Against 357 chocolate cake recipes
More chocolate than 91% of recipes and no salt, unlike 69%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 357 chocolate cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More chocolate than 91% of recipes: 94% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- No salt at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 0.9 to 2.3% of the flour weight).
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 167% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 142%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 large Egg≈ 50 g
- ¾ cup Granulated Sugar (150 grams)150 g
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract≈ 4.2 g
- ⅓ cup Sunflower Oil or Melted Butter (80 ml)≈ 76 g
- ½ cup Full Fat Milk (120 ml)≈ 122 g
- ¾ cup All Purpose Flour (90 grams)90 g
- ¼ cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder (25 grams)25 g
- 1 tsp Baking Powder≈ 4.6 g
- ½ cup Chocolate Chips (optional)≈ 85 g
flour 90 gbatter 607 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.
- Cocoa28% · 67th percentile · median 23%
- Chocolate94% · 91st percentile · median 0%
- Sugar167% · 75th percentile · median 142%
- Fat84% · 69th percentile · median 62%
- Egg56% · 65th percentile · median 46%
- Liquid136% · 49th percentile · median 138%
- Leavening5.1% · 56th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 35 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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