Best-Ever Yellow Cake With Whipped Ganache Frosting
biggerbolderbaking.com · 2024 · 12 servings
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Close to the middle of 126 vanilla cake recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 116% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- Liquid in the middle half of recipes: 72% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
Ingredients (12)
- 3 cups (12 oz/340 g) cake flour*340 g
- 1 ¾ cups (14 oz/395 g) granulated sugar395 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ¼ cup (2 floz/60 ml) plus ¾ cup (6 floz/180 ml) buttermilk*, (room temperature)≈ 244 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 1 cup (8 oz/225 g) butter, (softened)225 g
- 4 large eggs, (at room temperature)≈ 200 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 3 ⅓ cups (20 oz/567 g) milk chocolate, finely chopped567 g
- ⅔ cup (4 oz/115 g) bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped115 g
- 2 cups (16 floz/480 ml) heavy whipping cream≈ 476 g
flour 340 gbatter 1432 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.
- Sugar116% · 67th percentile · median 108%
- Fat66% · 54th percentile · median 66%
- Egg59% · 61st percentile · median 56%
- Liquid72% · 32nd percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.6% · 40th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.9% · 39th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 35 to 40 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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