White Cake
Jen · nigella.com · Serves: 8
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
No salt, unlike 94% of recipes and more fat than 87%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No salt at all, where 94% of recipes use some (most of those 0.8 to 1.4% of the flour weight).
- More fat than 87% of recipes: 84% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
- More egg than 80% of recipes: 67% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 56%.
- More liquid than 78% of recipes: 104% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
Ingredients (12)
- 375 millilitres caster sugar≈ 317 g
- 250 grams butter250 g
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla essence≈ 13 g
- 563 millilitres flour≈ 297 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- 300 millilitres milk (whole milk)≈ 309 g
- 250 millilitres blanched almonds (finely chopped)≈ 127 g
- 6 egg whites (beaten to stiff peaks)≈ 198 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 75 grams butter75 g
- 250 grams cream cheese250 g
- 750 millilitres icing sugar≈ 380 g
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla essence≈ 13 g
flour 297 gbatter 1525 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.
- Sugar107% · 46th percentile · median 108%
- Fat84% · 88th percentile · median 66%
- Egg67% · 81st percentile · median 56%
- Liquid104% · 79th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4.6% · 80th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0% · 3rd percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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