Back-to-Basics Yellow Cake
Charlotte Rutledge · kingarthurbaking.com · two 8" or 9" round cakes; one 9" x 13" cake, or 24 cupcakes
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less sugar than 90% of recipes and less liquid than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 90% of recipes: 83% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- Less liquid than 88% of recipes: 63% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
- Leavening in the middle half of recipes: 3.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
Ingredients (8)
- 16 tablespoons (227g) unsalted butter, at room temperature, at least 65°F227 g
- 1 1/2 cups (298g) granulated sugar298 g
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 12 g
- 3/4 teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
- 1 tablespoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 13 g
- 4 large eggs, room temperature≈ 200 g
- 3 cups (360g) King Arthur Unbleached Cake Flour360 g
- 1 cup (227g) milk, at room temperature227 g
flour 360 gbatter 1341 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.
- Sugar83% · 9th percentile · median 108%
- Fat63% · 42nd percentile · median 66%
- Egg56% · 48th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid63% · 12th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.2% · 23rd percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1.3% · 67th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 40 to 45 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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