White Cake Recipe
shugarysweets.com · 2023 · 16 servings
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less liquid than 84% of recipes and more sugar than 78%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less liquid than 84% of recipes: 64% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
- More sugar than 78% of recipes: 123% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- More leavening than 83% of recipes: 4.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
- Less salt than 76% of recipes: 0.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
Ingredients (12)
- 5 egg whites (room temperature)≈ 165 g
- ¾ cup buttermilk≈ 183 g
- ¾ cup unsalted butter (softened)≈ 170 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1 ¾ cup granulated sugar≈ 350 g
- 2 ½ cup cake flour≈ 285 g
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)≈ 227 g
- 4 ½ cups powdered sugar≈ 540 g
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 3 Tablespoons milk≈ 46 g
flour 285 gbatter 1177 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.
- Sugar123% · 81st percentile · median 108%
- Fat60% · 30th percentile · median 66%
- Egg58% · 54th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid64% · 14th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4.8% · 86th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.7% · 20th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 28 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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