The Best Vanilla Cake Ever
Sofi | Broma Bakery · bromabakery.com · 2021 · Two eight inch rounds
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less sugar than 87% of recipes and more salt than 81%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 87% of recipes: 87% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- More salt than 81% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
- Leavening in the middle half of recipes: 3.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1/2 cup (113g) unsalted butter, at room temperature113 g
- 1/2 cup (105g) vegetable oil105 g
- 1 1/2 cups (312g) granulated sugar312 g
- 4 large eggs, room temperature≈ 200 g
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract≈ 25 g
- 3 cups (360g) cake flour360 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 12 g
- 1 1/3 cups (320g) buttermilk320 g
flour 360 gbatter 1453 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.
- Sugar87% · 12th percentile · median 108%
- Fat61% · 38th percentile · median 66%
- Egg56% · 48th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid89% · 60th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.2% · 23rd percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1.7% · 84th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 40 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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