White cake
Trois fois par jour · troisfoisparjour.com · Serves 10–12
Against 126 vanilla cake recipes
Less liquid than 98% of recipes and less salt than 92%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 126 vanilla cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less liquid than 98% of recipes: 39% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 82%, about half as much.
- Less salt than 92% of recipes: 0.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, under a third as much.
- Less fat than 79% of recipes: 55% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 66%.
Ingredients (13)
- 5 egg whites≈ 165 g
- 1/2 cup milk≈ 122 g
- 2 teaspoons almond extract≈ 8 g
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice≈ 15 g
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 313 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- Pinch of salt≈ 0.4 g
- 3/4 cup butter, cubed, at room temperature≈ 170 g
- 1 3/4 cup sugar≈ 350 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Currants, to garnish (or other fruit of your choice, or nothing!)n/a
- 1 cup semi-salted butter, at room temperature≈ 227 g
- 2 1/2 cups icing sugar≈ 300 g
- 1/4 cup milk≈ 61 g
flour 313 gbatter 1157 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.
- Sugar112% · 59th percentile · median 108%
- Fat55% · 20th percentile · median 66%
- Egg53% · 37th percentile · median 56%
- Liquid39% · 1st percentile · median 82%
- Leavening4.4% · 71st percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt0.1% · 7th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 45 to 50 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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