Vanilla Birthday Cake Recipe
biggerbolderbaking.com · 2023 · 8
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less fat than 91% of recipes and less liquid than 94%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 91% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
- Less liquid than 94% of recipes: 57% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
- Less salt than 76% of recipes: 0.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
Ingredients (10)
- 3 cups (425g/15oz) cake flour ((sifted))425 g
- 2 cups (453g/16oz) granulated sugar453 g
- 4 teaspoons baking powder≈ 18 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 5 large egg whites ((at room temperature))≈ 165 g
- 1 whole egg ((at room temperature))≈ 50 g
- 1 cup (8floz/227ml) whole milk or full fat buttermilk≈ 244 g
- 2 1/4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract≈ 10 g
- ¾ cup (170g, 6oz) unsalted butter, cold170 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Vanilla Buttercream Frostingn/a
flour 425 gbatter 1538 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% · 46th percentile · median 108%
- Fat40% · 8th percentile · median 66%
- Egg51% · 31st percentile · median 56%
- Liquid57% · 5th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4.3% · 67th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.7% · 20th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 35 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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