The Most Amazing Vanilla Cake
thestayathomechef.com · 2017 · 16 Servings or 1 3 layer cake
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less sugar than 95% of recipes and less egg than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 95% of recipes: 75% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 108%.
- Less egg than 91% of recipes: 38% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 56%.
- Less fat than 77% of recipes: 56% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
- More leavening than 77% of recipes: 4.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1/2 cup salted butter (softened)≈ 114 g
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil≈ 109 g
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk (warmed to room temperature)≈ 366 g
- 3 eggs (warmed to room temperature)≈ 150 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 3 1/2 cups cake flour≈ 399 g
- 4 teaspoons baking powder≈ 18 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
flour 399 gbatter 1472 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.
- Sugar75% · 4th percentile · median 108%
- Fat56% · 22nd percentile · median 66%
- Egg38% · 8th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid92% · 65th percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4.6% · 80th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.8% · 28th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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