Birthday Cake
bakedbyanintrovert.com · 2018 · 12
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less fat than 80% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 80% of recipes: 53% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 96% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
Ingredients (16)
- ½ cup canola oil≈ 109 g
- ¼ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)≈ 57 g
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 4 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract≈ 25 g
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour (sifted)≈ 313 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 cup buttermilk (room temperature)≈ 244 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 ½ cups unsalted butter (room temperature)≈ 341 g
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (sifted)≈ 86 g
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar (sifted)≈ 480 g
- ¼ cup heavy cream (room temperature)≈ 60 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- ⅛ teaspoon salt≈ 0.8 g
flour 313 gbatter 1263 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.
- Sugar96% · 29th percentile · median 108%
- Fat53% · 19th percentile · median 66%
- Egg64% · 72nd percentile · median 56%
- Liquid78% · 43rd percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.9% · 50th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1% · 48th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 20 to 25 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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