Best Homemade vanilla cake : extra fluffy
Amour de cuisine · amourdecuisine.fr · 2026 · 8 servings
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More leavening than 97% of recipes and less liquid than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 97% of recipes: 6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
- Less liquid than 95% of recipes: 57% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
- No salt at all, where 94% of recipes use some (most of those 0.8 to 1.4% of the flour weight).
- Less fat than 78% of recipes: 56% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
Ingredients (7)
- 225 g self-raising flour (otherwise add 1/2 tsp baking powder)225 g
- 220 g sugar220 g
- 125 g melted butter125 g
- 125 ml milk≈ 129 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
- 2 tbsp vanilla extract≈ 25 g
- 1/2 tsp baking powder (if you don’t have self-raising flour)≈ 2.3 g
flour 225 gbatter 826 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Sugar98% · 35th percentile · median 108%
- Fat56% · 21st percentile · median 66%
- Egg44% · 20th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid57% · 4th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening6% · 98th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0% · 3rd percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 55 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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