Moist Vanilla Cake
bakedbyanintrovert.com · 2020 · 12
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less sugar than 85% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 85% of recipes: 88% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- Liquid in the middle half of recipes: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
Ingredients (14)
- ½ cup canola oil (or vegetable oil)≈ 109 g
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)≈ 114 g
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 4 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste≈ 13 g
- 3 cups cake flour≈ 342 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 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 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
- 5 large egg whites≈ 165 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 2 cups unsalted butter (cut into pieces at room temperature)≈ 454 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste (or vanilla extract)≈ 13 g
flour 342 gbatter 1338 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.
- Sugar88% · 13th percentile · median 108%
- Fat65% · 48th percentile · median 66%
- Egg59% · 59th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid71% · 30th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4% · 55th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.9% · 39th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 20 to 25 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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