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Oursons vanille façon quatre-quarts

Original in French

ça ne sent pas un peu le brûlé là? · chefsimon.com · 2025

Against 462 pound cake recipes

More leavening than 95% of recipes and no salt, unlike 75%.

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How it compares

Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.

  • More leavening than 95% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 3 times as much.
  • No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
  • No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
  • Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
Butter: 100%, 72nd percentileSugar: 100%, 24th percentileEgg: 91%, 70th percentileDairy: 0%, 16th percentileLeavening: 5%, 96th percentileSalt: 0%, 12th percentileButterSugarEggDairyLeaveningSalt
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (6)

  • 2 œufs≈ 100 g
  • 110 g de sucre110 g
  • 110 g de farine110 g
  • 1/2 sachet de levure6 g
  • 110 g de beurre demi sel110 g
  • 1 gusse de vanillen/a

flour 110 gbatter 436 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 462 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

  • Butter100% · 72nd percentile
  • Sugar100% · 24th percentile
  • Egg91% · 70th percentile
  • Dairy0% · 16th percentile
  • Leavening5% · 96th percentile
  • Salt0% · 12th percentile

Oven

Temperature
not stated
median 350°F
Time
not stated
median 60 minutes

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