Vanilla Birthday Cake
Charlotte Rutledge · kingarthurbaking.com · 12 / two 8" or 9" round layers; one 9"x 13" cake, or 24 cupc
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less fat than 82% of recipes and more egg than 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 82% of recipes: 52% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
- More egg than 77% of recipes: 66% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 56%.
- Less liquid than 76% of recipes: 69% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
Ingredients (10)
- 2 3/4 cups (330g) King Arthur Unbleached Cake Flour330 g
- 1 2/3 cups (333g) granulated sugar333 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- 3/4 teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
- 12 tablespoons (170g) unsalted butter, softened170 g
- 2 large egg whites, at room temperature≈ 66 g
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 150 g
- 1 cup (227g) milk, whole preferred, at room temperature227 g
- 1 tablespoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 13 g
- 1 teaspoon almond extract≈ 4.2 g
flour 330 gbatter 1311 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.
- Sugar101% · 39th percentile · median 108%
- Fat52% · 17th percentile · median 66%
- Egg66% · 79th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid69% · 23rd percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4.2% · 65th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1.4% · 74th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 35 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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