Rainbow Layer Birthday Cake
Kitchen Tested · melindastrauss.com · 2018
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More sugar than 85% of recipes and more leavening than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 85% of recipes: 125% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- More leavening than 88% of recipes: 4.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
- Less egg than 80% of recipes: 44% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 56%.
Ingredients (11)
- vegetable sprayn/a
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 4 tsp baking powder≈ 18 g
- 1/2 tsp salt≈ 3 g
- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted vegan butter, room temperature≈ 226 g
- 2 1/3 cups sugar≈ 467 g
- 5 egg whites, room temperature≈ 165 g
- 2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened soy milk or almond milk, room temperature≈ 366 g
- red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple gel food coloringn/a
- *for the frosting, you can make homemade buttercream or use 3 containers of pre-made vanilla frosting, such as Duncan Hines.n/a
flour 375 gbatter 1629 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.
- Sugar125% · 86th percentile · median 108%
- Fat60% · 34th percentile · median 66%
- Egg44% · 19th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid98% · 73rd percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4.9% · 90th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.8% · 28th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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