Yellow Cake
spendwithpennies.com · 2019 · 12 people
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More liquid than 87% of recipes and less egg than 81%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More liquid than 87% of recipes: 117% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
- Less egg than 81% of recipes: 43% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 56%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 96% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- Leavening in the middle half of recipes: 3.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
Ingredients (11)
- 2 ¾ cups cake flour≈ 314 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil≈ 73 g
- ⅔ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)≈ 151 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 2 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 100 g
- 2 large egg yolks (room temperature)≈ 36 g
- 1 ½ cups buttermilk (room temperature)≈ 366 g
flour 314 gbatter 1366 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.
- Sugar96% · 25th percentile · median 108%
- Fat72% · 65th percentile · median 66%
- Egg43% · 18th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid117% · 88th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.2% · 23rd percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1.3% · 67th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 35 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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