Grammy's Kitchen · Vanilla Cake · Dinosaur Birthday Cake
One of 51 vanilla cake recipes we measured
2 cooks on www.melskitchencafe.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 51.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 71% | 88% |
| total sugar | 146% | 181% |
| egg | 83% | 54% |
| leavener | 3% | 3% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 152% | 86% |
| dairy | 152% | 84% |
| chocolate | 27% | 0% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 170 g | 12 tablespoons butter |
| 350 g | 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 7 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract |
| 240 g | 2 cups all-purpose flour |
| 64 g | 3/4 cup cocoa powder |
| 200 g | 4 large eggs |
| 366 g | 1 1/2 cups milk |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.melskitchencafe.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.