The Best White Cake Recipe
sugarspunrun.com · 2018 · 12 slices
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
More salt than 81% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 81% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
- Liquid in the middle half of recipes: 70% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
Ingredients (10)
- 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter softened to room temperature≈ 85 g
- ⅔ cup avocado oil, canola oil or vegetable oil≈ 145 g
- 2 cup sugar≈ 400 g
- 1 Tablespoon clear vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 2 ⅔ cup + 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour≈ 349 g
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 cup milk (room temperature preferred)≈ 244 g
- 6 large egg whites (room temperature)≈ 198 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Double batch Vanilla Buttercream Frosting ((click link for recipe))n/a
flour 349 gbatter 1454 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.
- Sugar115% · 62nd percentile · median 108%
- Fat66% · 52nd percentile · median 66%
- Egg57% · 50th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid70% · 27th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4% · 55th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1.7% · 84th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 35 to 40 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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