What’s on the Cake Ratios poster
A 5-row table: Cake · Ratio · Reads as.
By weight, flour as the reference.
- Pound cake — 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 — flour : butter : sugar : egg
- Victoria sponge — 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 — The same, with raising agent
- Genoise — 1 : 0.5 : 1 — egg : flour : sugar, no fat
- Brownie — 1 : 1 : 0.5 — sugar : fat : flour
- Chiffon — Genoise + oil and liquid — Lighter, moister
The Victoria sponge is weighed against the eggs: use the eggs' weight for each of flour, butter and sugar.
Questions about the Cake Ratios poster
- What’s on the Cake Ratios poster?
- A 5-row table: Cake · Ratio · Reads as. By weight, flour as the reference. Pound cake — 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 — flour : butter : sugar : egg; Victoria sponge — 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 — The same, with raising agent; Genoise — 1 : 0.5 : 1 — egg : flour : sugar, no fat; Brownie — 1 : 1 : 0.5 — sugar : fat : flour; Chiffon — Genoise + oil and liquid — Lighter, moister. The Victoria sponge is weighed against the eggs: use the eggs' weight for each of flour, butter and sugar.
- Who is the Cake Ratios poster for?
- Cake Ratios belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ratios can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Cake Ratios poster?
- Once the ratio is memorised, the flavourings are the only variable left. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Cake Ratios belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Cake Ratios?
- Baking Ratios, Cocktail Ratios and Custard Ratios sit alongside Cake Ratios in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Baking RatiosCocktail RatiosCustard Ratios
- Is the Cake Ratios poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Cake Ratios downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Cake Ratios poster print at?
- Cake Ratios is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Cake Ratios loses nothing.Printing guide
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