Rainbow Birthday Cake
Taste of Home Editorial Team · tasteofhome.com · 2023 · 16 servings
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less fat than 88% of recipes and less egg than 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 88% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
- Less egg than 86% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 56%.
- Less liquid than 75% of recipes: 69% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
Ingredients (14)
- 1 cup butter, softened≈ 227 g
- 2-1/2 cups sugar≈ 500 g
- 4 large eggs, room temperature≈ 200 g
- 4 cups all-purpose flour≈ 500 g
- 3 teaspoons baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1-1/2 cups sour cream≈ 345 g
- 6 different colors gel food coloringn/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 cups butter, softened≈ 454 g
- 6 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted≈ 720 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream≈ 69 g
- Sprinklesn/a
flour 500 gbatter 1795 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%
- Fat45% · 12th percentile · median 66%
- Egg40% · 12th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid69% · 24th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening3.4% · 33rd percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1.2% · 61st percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 13 to 15 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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