Mary Todd Lincoln's White Cake
12tomatoes.com · Serves 6-8
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less liquid than 80% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less liquid than 80% of recipes: 65% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
- Salt in the middle half of recipes: 0.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 cup butter, softened≈ 227 g
- 2 cups granulated sugar≈ 400 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 cup milk≈ 244 g
- 1 cup blanched almonds, pulsed into coarse flour in food processor≈ 120 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 6 egg whites, room temperature≈ 198 g
flour 375 gbatter 1585 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.
- Sugar107% · 48th percentile · median 108%
- Fat61% · 36th percentile · median 66%
- Egg53% · 37th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid65% · 18th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.7% · 44th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.8% · 28th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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