Awesome Vanilla Cake
izyleai · nigella.com · Serves: 7 pretty big slices
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More sugar than 88% of recipes and no salt, unlike 94%.
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%.
- No salt at all, where 94% of recipes use some (most of those 0.8 to 1.4% of the flour weight).
- Less fat than 80% of recipes: 52% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
Ingredients (7)
- 2¼ teaspoons baking powder≈ 10 g
- ¾ cup vegetable oil≈ 164 g
- 1 cup milk≈ 244 g
- 2½ cups flour≈ 313 g
- 4 eggs≈ 200 g
- 2 cups superfine sugar≈ 400 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla≈ 4.2 g
flour 313 gbatter 1335 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%
- Fat52% · 19th percentile · median 66%
- Egg64% · 72nd percentile · median 56%
- Liquid78% · 43rd percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.3% · 29th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0% · 3rd percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 40 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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