Vanilla Cake
Food Network Kitchen · foodnetwork.com · 2018 · two 9-inch layer cakes
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More salt than 81% of recipes and more liquid than 79%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 81% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
- More liquid than 79% of recipes: 107% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
- Less leavening than 79% of recipes: 3.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
Ingredients (12)
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil, plus more for the pans≈ 109 g
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for the pans≈ 344 g
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch≈ 16 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk, at room temperature≈ 366 g
- 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar≈ 15 g
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature≈ 113 g
- 1 2/3 cups sugar≈ 333 g
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 200 g
flour 344 gbatter 1525 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.
- Sugar97% · 34th percentile · median 108%
- Fat65% · 46th percentile · median 66%
- Egg58% · 57th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid107% · 80th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.1% · 19th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1.7% · 84th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 35 to 45 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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