Classic Dessert Recipe: Yellow Layer Cake
12tomatoes.com · 2014
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More egg than 87% of recipes and less leavening than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 87% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 56%.
- Less leavening than 88% of recipes: 2.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
- More sugar than 78% of recipes: 123% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- More salt than 78% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
Ingredients (11)
- 2 1/2 cups cake flour, plus extra for dusting≈ 285 g
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder≈ 6 g
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 3/4 teaspoon salt≈ 4.5 g
- 1 3/4 cups sugar≈ 350 g
- 10 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled slightly≈ 142 g
- 1 cup buttermilk, room temperature≈ 244 g
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil≈ 41 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 6 large egg yolks, room temperature≈ 108 g
- 3 large egg whites, room temperature≈ 99 g
flour 285 gbatter 1289 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 126 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Sugar123% · 81st percentile · median 108%
- Fat64% · 44th percentile · median 66%
- Egg73% · 88th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid86% · 56th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening2.6% · 10th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1.6% · 80th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 20 to 22 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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