Best Yellow Cake Recipe
Tessa Arias · handletheheat.com · 2020 · 8 servings
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More sugar than 95% of recipes and more fat than 93%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 95% of recipes: 138% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- More fat than 93% of recipes: 89% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
- More leavening than 97% of recipes: 6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
Ingredients (12)
- 2 1/4 cups (254 grams) bleached cake flour, (measured correctly)254 g
- 3 teaspoons baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt≈ 3 g
- 2 sticks (227 grams) unsalted butter, (at cool room temperature)227 g
- 1 3/4 cups (350 grams) granulated sugar350 g
- 2 large eggs, room temperature≈ 100 g
- 2 large egg yolks, room temperature≈ 36 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1/4 cup (57 grams) sour cream or plain full fat yogurt, (at room temperature)57 g
- 3/4 cup whole milk, (at room temperature)≈ 183 g
- 1 Batch Best Chocolate American Buttercreamn/a
flour 254 gbatter 1234 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.
- Sugar138% · 96th percentile · median 108%
- Fat89% · 94th percentile · median 66%
- Egg54% · 43rd percentile · median 56%
- Liquid95% · 69th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening6% · 98th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1.2% · 61st percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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