White Cake
leitesculinaria.com · 2012 · 10 to 12 servings
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More sugar than 88% of recipes and less salt than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 88% of recipes: 128% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- Less salt than 83% of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (plus more for the pans)≈ 313 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
- 2 sticks (8 oz) unsalted butter (softened, plus more for the pans)≈ 226 g
- 2 cups granulated sugar≈ 400 g
- 4 large eggs≈ 200 g
- 1 cup buttermilk ((either low-fat or full-fat), or 1 cup whole milk mixed with 1 teaspoon lemon juice)≈ 244 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (or for a truly white cake, seek out clear vanilla extract)≈ 8 g
flour 313 gbatter 1404 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.
- Sugar128% · 90th percentile · median 108%
- Fat72% · 67th percentile · median 66%
- Egg64% · 72nd percentile · median 56%
- Liquid78% · 43rd percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.4% · 33rd percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.6% · 13th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 20 to 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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