Self-Rising Yellow Cake
King Arthur Baking · kingarthurbaking.com · 2 round 9" layers or 3 round 8" layers
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More leavening than 92% of recipes and less liquid than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 92% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
- Less liquid than 89% of recipes: 62% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
Ingredients (8)
- 16 tablespoons (227g) unsalted butter, at room temperature, at least 65°F227 g
- 2 cups (397g) granulated sugar397 g
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt≈ 3 g
- 1 tablespoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract, orange zest, or lemon zest≈ 13 g
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract, optional; for enhanced flavor≈ 1.1 g
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 200 g
- 3 1/4 cups (369g) King Arthur Unbleached Self-Rising Flour369 g
- 1 cup (227g) milk, at room temperature*227 g
flour 369 gbatter 1437 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Sugar108% · 50th percentile · median 108%
- Fat62% · 39th percentile · median 66%
- Egg54% · 44th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid62% · 10th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening5% · 92nd percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.8% · 28th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 35 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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