6-inch Cake Recipe (Yellow Cake)
savorthebest.com · 2019 · 6 -8 servings
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More leavening than 99% of recipes and more salt than 94%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 99% of recipes: 6.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
- More salt than 94% of recipes: 2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, about twice as much.
- Less egg than 78% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 56%.
- Less fat than 75% of recipes: 57% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 ½ cups sifted cake flour (150 grams)150 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 6 tablespoons butter (softened)≈ 85 g
- ¾ cup granulated sugar (150 grams)150 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 egg yolk≈ 18 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- ½ cup milk (120 grams)120 g
flour 150 gbatter 594 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.
- Sugar100% · 38th percentile · median 108%
- Fat57% · 24th percentile · median 66%
- Egg45% · 21st percentile · median 56%
- Liquid80% · 46th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening6.1% · 100th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt2% · 96th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 18 to 22 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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