Classic Vanilla Cake
mybakingaddiction.com · 2025 · 12
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More liquid than 89% of recipes and more leavening than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More liquid than 89% of recipes: 119% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
- More leavening than 83% of recipes: 4.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
Ingredients (10)
- 2 ¼ cups cake flour≈ 257 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter (room temperature)≈ 170 g
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 3 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 150 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste≈ 13 g
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1 ¼ cups buttermilk (room temperature)≈ 305 g
flour 257 gbatter 1217 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.
- Sugar117% · 70th percentile · median 108%
- Fat66% · 56th percentile · median 66%
- Egg59% · 59th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid119% · 90th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4.8% · 86th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.8% · 28th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 35 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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