The Best Vanilla Cake
theflavorbender.com · 2018 · 12 people
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less liquid than 92% of recipes and less leavening than 82%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less liquid than 92% of recipes: 59% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%.
- Less leavening than 82% of recipes: 2.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
- Less sugar than 77% of recipes: 95% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
Ingredients (12)
- 115 g unsalted butter (4 oz / 1 stick. At room temperature)115 g
- 100 g oil100 g
- ½ tsp salt≈ 3 g
- 300 g white sugar (1 ½ cups)300 g
- 4 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 180 mL milk (¾ cup. Preferably full fat, see recipe notes)≈ 186 g
- 10 mL white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar (2 tsp)≈ 5 g
- 15 mL vanilla extract (1 tbsp. Try to use a good quality extract. )≈ 13 g
- 315 g AP flour (2 ½ cups, measured by spoon and level method )315 g
- 2 tsp baking powder≈ 9 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 recipe Vanilla Buttercream Frosting ORn/a
- 2 recipe Chocolate Buttercream Frostingn/a
flour 315 gbatter 1246 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.
- Sugar95% · 22nd percentile · median 108%
- Fat68% · 61st percentile · median 66%
- Egg64% · 69th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid59% · 8th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening2.9% · 16th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1% · 48th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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