Perfect White Cake
12tomatoes.com · Serves 10-12
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less salt than 90% of recipes and less liquid than 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 90% of recipes: 0.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, about half as much.
- Less liquid than 80% of recipes: 65% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
Ingredients (8)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 2 cups granulated sugar≈ 400 g
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened and cubed≈ 227 g
- 1 cup whole milk, room temperature≈ 244 g
- 6 egg whites, room temperature≈ 198 g
- 3 teaspoons baking powder≈ 14 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1/4 teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
flour 375 gbatter 1468 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%
- Salt0.4% · 9th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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