Classic White Cake
Food Network · foodnetwork.com · 2015
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More egg than 94% of recipes and less salt than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 94% of recipes: 79% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 56%.
- Less salt than 83% of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
- Sugar above the middle half: 120% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%, more than 74% of recipes use.
Ingredients (8)
- 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened≈ 170 g
- 1 1/2 cups sugar≈ 300 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1/4 teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 6 large egg whites (3/4 cup)≈ 198 g
- 3/4 cup milk≈ 183 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
flour 250 gbatter 1121 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.
- Sugar120% · 76th percentile · median 108%
- Fat68% · 59th percentile · median 66%
- Egg79% · 95th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid73% · 34th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.7% · 44th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.6% · 13th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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