🍰 Cake Calorie Calculator
Calculate calories per slice and for the whole cake — with frosting options
| Cake Type | Unfrosted / Slice | With Buttercream | Calories / 100g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate Layer Cake | 280 kcal | 390 kcal | 391 kcal |
| Vanilla / White Sponge | 220 kcal | 320 kcal | 317 kcal |
| Carrot Cake | 250 kcal | 360 kcal (cream cheese) | 372 kcal |
| Cheesecake (plain) | 330 kcal | N/A | 367 kcal |
| Red Velvet | 270 kcal | 375 kcal (cream cheese) | 389 kcal |
| Lemon Drizzle | 240 kcal | 295 kcal (drizzle) | 328 kcal |
| Pound / Butter Cake | 310 kcal | N/A | 356 kcal |
| Angel Food Cake | 140 kcal | 200 kcal (whipped) | 156 kcal |
| Frosting Type | Per 100g | Per Slice (avg) | Per Cupcake |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buttercream | 370 kcal | ~110 kcal | ~130 kcal |
| Cream Cheese Frosting | 330 kcal | ~95 kcal | ~110 kcal |
| Chocolate Ganache | 400 kcal | ~80 kcal | ~90 kcal |
| Whipped Cream | 290 kcal | ~60 kcal | ~70 kcal |
| Glaze / Drizzle | 350 kcal | ~40 kcal | ~30 kcal |
| Fondant | 390 kcal | ~75 kcal | ~50 kcal |
Cake is a kind of baked good that one makes by mixing flour with eggs, fat or both. It normally carries some rising agent. The biggest part of cakes cooks in an oven, although some can be fried on a grill.
Before, in its early versions, they simply were a variation of bread. Current times on the other hand cakes cover a whole kind of different ways to make them.
All About Cakes
Here are many kinds of cakes. Simple yellow cake works for birthdays, it stays wet and can cook in two round pans or in rectangular form. That has sweet smooth filling with nice crust, soft structure and a lot of vanilla smell.
There also exist more original types, for instance that with blackberry and lemon, that forms tender top with lemon bark, covered with blackberry butter cream and decorated with fresh blackberries together with edible flowers.
Chocolate cake forms a reliable sweet, that all like, from children to adults. However homemade samples commonly turn out dry, heavy, dense or simply bad. To reach better results, one can dust the pan with cocoa powder instead of flour.
Like this one strengthens the chocolate smell and escapes white marks, that flour wood leave.
Dump cake belongs to the kind of simple sweets and is especially easy. It requires to only mix preserved fruit filling, cake mix and butter in a pan and later cook. Almost any fruit fits that.
The main idea implies to lay a box of fruits together with a whole bag of white cake mix in a big pot, later spread melting butter above it.
There also exist methods to make cakes more solid. Less air results in more density, while extra protein makes it more chewy. One gets less air by using less rising agent or by shorter blending of sugar and butter.
Other proteins come from part of bread flour or from longer mixing of the ready mass than usually.
Serving big amounts matters during making food for a group. In the range of cakes, two main serving sizes exist: for weddings and for parties. Wedding cake slices usually measure four inches high, one inch wide and one inch deep.
Party portions reach one and a half to two inches. A six-inch round cake is enough for four to six folks. Eight-inch round portions give twelve to sixteen.
A whole rectangular cake, cut in two-by-two-inch squares, delivers around ninety portions. To guess the needed amount of cake, one multiplies theguests by the portion size.
Simple and commonly very nice ways to decorate cake are to cover it with a thick layer of fresh beaten cream, a bit sweetened and flavored with vanilla, then lay fruits on top.