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Basic Cake Ingredients

A basic yellow cake has just eight ingredients. Can you name them all?
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Last updated: April 3, 2013
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Ingredient
Flour
Baking powder
Salt
Sugar
Ingredient
Butter
Eggs
Vanilla
Milk
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Level 71
Apr 10, 2013
Lol, I don't even know what a yellow cake is, but I got them all.
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Level 28
May 21, 2016
A yellow cake is just a regular old cake that probably tastes like vanilla. One of the most common cakes I know of, along with chocolate. Good job with the ingredients though! I missed salt :(
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Level 75
Apr 20, 2017
Yellow cakes include whole eggs, while white cakes only use egg whites.
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Level 44
Jul 15, 2020
It sounds like yellow cakes would only use the yolk
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
I still missed two and was tryong to think of what could make a cake yellow... still dont know why it is a yellow cake?
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Level 59
Feb 18, 2024
Everyone knows yellow cake! Yellow cake is a type of uranium concentrate powder obtained from leach solutions, in an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores. It is a step in the processing of uranium after it has been mined but before fuel fabrication or uranium enrichment. Yellow cake concentrates are prepared by various extraction and refining methods, depending on the types of ores.

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I had no idea it was so easy to make.

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Level 71
Feb 18, 2024
This was the only result on Wikipedia when I looked up "yellow cake" to see if it was just American name for something I'm familiar with!
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Level 64
Feb 18, 2024
I wonder if the Americans refer to what in Britain we call a Victoria Sponge or a Sponge Cake, as a Yellow Cake.
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Level 64
Feb 18, 2024
everybody isn't american and know that cake... ;)
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Level 36
Aug 6, 2013
baking soda should count!
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Level 44
Dec 28, 2015
Erikthev - Sorry to be picky, but baking soda (NaHCO3) is an alkali not an acid ;)
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Level 75
Dec 28, 2015
Baking soda is not the same thing as baking powder. Baking powder is a combination of baking soda and cream of tartar because baking soda is a base and requires acid to activate its leavening power (bubbles). This quiz only listed eight ingredients so baking powder is the only one which fits. (Baking soda is usually only used when baking ingredients that have additional acid added, such as vinegar, lemon juice, buttermilk, honey, etc.)
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
A good comprehensive explanation :)
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Level 38
Dec 28, 2015
Baking soda makes it more dry so more people use baking powder
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Level 37
Aug 6, 2013
Yeah !! Perfect score...It was a "piece of cake" ..yuck...yuck...yuck..yuck...yuck.
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Level 31
May 6, 2014
How’d I forget butter?!
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Level 62
Jul 25, 2019
Exactly! BUTTER! how'd I miss it?!
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Level 43
May 7, 2014
How in the world did I forget Milk and Eggs! Those were the only two i needed!
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
Well apparently you need the rest aswell ;)
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Level 77
May 15, 2014
Yay I can bake a cake!
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Level 43
May 24, 2014
100%
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Level 38
Nov 1, 2014
Vanilla but no saffron? THIS ISN'T WHY I LEARNED THAT GERMAN CAKE SONG.
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Level 78
Dec 28, 2015
Backe, backe, Kuchen ...
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Level 66
Aug 24, 2020
Who puts saffron in a cake?
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Level 67
Feb 21, 2024
Any German who wants to make a cake yellow. It's a very popular nursery rhyme
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Level 60
Nov 11, 2014
Never heard of a yellow cake but guessed the ingredients - what makes it yellow though?
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Level 76
Jan 15, 2019
The eggs.
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
What is it without eggs then?
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Level 45
Dec 8, 2020
There's no way that egg yolk make the icing that particular shade of yellow. Putting egg yolks in icing sounds pretty gross to me.

It's more likely to be petroleum-derived orange azo dye. Quiz master should accept 'yellow food colouring'.

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Level 56
Mar 4, 2023
Quiz is asking about the cake, not the icing. Yellow cake is yellow because of the egg yolks. The icing can be any color.
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Level 17
Nov 28, 2014
I got all but baking powder and butter, but I tried ptting baking soda. LOL
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Level 76
Nov 30, 2014
OK, this from a non-chef - why on Earth salt?
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Level 44
Jan 19, 2015
the salt is to balance out the sugar because there is already so much sweet stuff in it
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Level 78
Jan 24, 2015
It would taste really bland without the salt, trust me.
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Level 75
Dec 28, 2015
Bitterness suppresses the tastes of sweet and sour. Salt suppresses bitterness. So rather than actually enhancing the sweetness, salt prevents the sweetness from being suppressed, therefore making food taste better. It is also believed that salt releases more aromatics from our food. http://sciencefare.org/2013/07/10/why-does-salt-make-almost-everything-taste-better/
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
It may sound very odd, but sometimes i put salt on cookies... otherwise it is sweet on sweet on sweet and tastes boring and like nothing.

They seemed to have put less and less salt in things like that though.

Stupidly enough they put more and more sugar in the strangest things ( often making it worse than the versions wihout) like chips/crisps (all flavours), pizza, bread, soup, pastasauce. There are much more ridiculous examples, I just cant think of them atm. I often check the ingredients. But not allways, and sometimes I think, yuck this taste pretty gross, and I look and they have put some sort of sugar in it again.

In products if you made it at home from fresh you wouldnt even think of adding it (and most times not for preservative reasons, because often there are (if you look hard enough) versions without sugar)

And no, I am not some sort of health freak before people feel the need to tear me down or something.

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Level 43
Feb 21, 2024
you put in like a 1/4 teaspoon at most. a pinch in many cases.

Some amount of salt is in basically everything.

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Level 46
Jan 25, 2015
Never heard of Yellow Cake but still got 100%
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Level 51
Mar 22, 2015
i've never used butter or margarine in a cake, only oil... should be acceptable.
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Level 57
Jun 7, 2015
Forgot milk, lol
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Level 45
Nov 14, 2015
I got them all - but don't you usually use oil in cake - not butter?
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Level 75
Dec 28, 2015
Boxed cake mixes usually call for oil, but most yellow "scratch" cake recipes begin with creaming butter and sugar together. Oil makes cakes lighter but butter gives finer texture, and I prefer the flavor. Butter cakes dry out faster, though. Lately I've been seeing recipes where there are combinations of oil and butter to give the best of both worlds. Grandma would shudder at the thought, but in today's world I'd say oil should also be accepted.
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Level 35
Apr 20, 2017
We always use a little oil to make it moister.
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Level 65
Dec 28, 2015
Thanks for the free 5 stars!
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Level 70
Dec 28, 2015
On the rare occasions when I beat Kalbahamut, it makes me feel smart!
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Level 68
Jan 10, 2017
True!
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Level 14
Dec 28, 2015
I got all of them, but there needs to be some kind of oil.
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Level 38
Dec 28, 2015
Wow i feel so stupid i got everything but the eggs
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Level 38
Dec 28, 2015
honestly tried Pre-made Powder...still got 100% though haha
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Level 47
Dec 29, 2015
wow i missed salt!!!
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Level 27
Dec 31, 2015
Vanilla doesn't go in cakes unless you're making a vanilla cake :/
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Level 74
May 13, 2016
A yellow cake IS a vanilla cake. What on earth did you think it was flavored with otherwise?
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
why did/does it need to be flavoured? (already sweet from sugar)
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Level 43
Feb 21, 2024
vanilla has no sugar in it naturally so i dont see the issue.
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Level 9
Feb 16, 2016
Pap helped me answer. He's the chef (:
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Level 74
May 13, 2016
Please accept "fat" and or "oil" for butter. In baking it doesn't matter what kind of fat you use, it all serves the same function.
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
bacon?
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Level 61
Aug 28, 2016
100%, not hard when you AND all your close relatives love to bake from scratch!
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Level 68
Jan 10, 2017
I think adding some passionfruit to this cake would make it perfect.
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Level 56
Jan 12, 2017
I use baking soda. That threw me off
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Level 50
Mar 10, 2017
What about the most necessary ingredient? Water
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Level 75
Apr 20, 2017
This one uses milk.
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Level 90
Apr 20, 2017
https://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/basic-yellow-cake/2b3266a9-647e-4ecf-bb1e-6620667b8cd2

For those who doubt.

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Level 78
Apr 20, 2017
The author of this quiz clearly forgot the two primary ingredients of cake (and everything else) in the modern world: high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated soybean oil.
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Level 57
Apr 21, 2017
go to the store and BYE one :-)
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Level 84
Sep 28, 2017
Didn't ewe mean too say, "By won"? I thought sew. Buy-buy fore now!
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
knaw?
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Level 22
Aug 25, 2017
baking soda should work as well for baking powder
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Level 63
Jul 27, 2018
It's not the same thing. Baking soda needs an acid like buttermilk to react with.
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Level 31
Aug 25, 2017
Missed milk lol
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Level 77
Aug 25, 2017
I forgot eggs and I was in the American Cakes elective at my school. Please don't kill me Ms. Palulis... Also the second ingredient in cake is apparently not cake. Who knew?
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Level 55
Jul 20, 2018
dear Anders, thanks for the explanation about powder/soda, you are brilliant at clear explanations and I have always been confused by this.

we do not have 'yellow cake'. in UK but guessed it was more or less a basic cake mix

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Level 34
Aug 13, 2018
I think there's too much time
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Level 44
Jan 15, 2019
Nice! Think this must be an American sponge cake recipe though ‘cause we don’t add vanilla or salt here in the UK and milk only for certain recipes... sounds good though all the same! :P ;)
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Level 60
Feb 11, 2019
I tried 'uranium' but couldn't think of any other ingredients in yellow cake.
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Level 41
Feb 17, 2019
Uranium lol who would eat uranium
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
I tried food colouring , saffron, banana, lemon, lime, and then I thought I better give up haha.
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Level 57
Nov 3, 2021
Yeah MarieDS.

I've never heard about yellowcake as an actual cake.

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Level 20
Feb 27, 2019
Missed flour
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Level 43
Apr 13, 2020
I remembered all.. expect flour

HOW CAN I FORGET FLOUR?!

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Level 45
Apr 21, 2020
I got a lot of them, but because of the influence of minecraft from all these years, the first ones i put in were eggs, milk, sugar, and i even tried wheat XD
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Level 28
May 21, 2020
This is the first time I've overestimated the knowledge of jetpunk users...is that a good thing?
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Level 60
Jul 1, 2020
Can you please accept Baking Soda for Baking powder because that's what we use instead of Baking Powder here
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Level 70
Apr 5, 2021
Don't forget to add a pinch of uranium.
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Level 28
Jun 6, 2021
What sort of cake did i just make? I just use flour, sugar, eggs and butter
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Level 57
Nov 3, 2021
It will taste good, don't worry
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Level 75
Feb 18, 2024
You made shortbread with an egg wash - a tasty treat, but not really cake.
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Level 35
Oct 19, 2021
ez kal- Ryan G Arakkal
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Level 60
Nov 3, 2021
I typed flower…
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Level 55
May 5, 2022
my mind blanked and i'm now having a minor crisis
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Level 45
Aug 18, 2022
i got 8/8 correct which is !00%
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Level 48
Oct 24, 2022
baking powder and not yeast?????
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Level 64
Dec 28, 2022
You don't need baking powder if you use self-raising flour. You don't use butter, milk, or eggs if you are vegan
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Level 30
Jul 25, 2023
I can't believe I forgot the flour
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Level 68
Oct 15, 2023
Sugar? Must be an American recipe.
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Level ∞
Jan 22, 2024
I really hope you don't bake cakes.
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Level 34
Jan 16, 2024
100% XD ez
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Level 43
Feb 18, 2024
Yeast? I’m a second language english speaker - shouldn’t yeast count for baking powder?
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Level 60
Feb 18, 2024
Different things.
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Level 48
Feb 18, 2024
Guessed seven out of eight without even seeing a yellow cake before :).
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Level 64
Feb 18, 2024
Accept baking soda for baking powder?
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Level 20
Feb 18, 2024
You scored 8/8 = 100%

29.2% of test takers also scored 100%

The average score is 6

Your high score is 8

Your fastest time is 1:28

OMG I don't even know what yellow cake is

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Level 44
Feb 18, 2024
I tried baking soda, bicarbonate of soda, yeast and rising agent. They might not be the same as baking powder, but cultural differences should really be taken into account. Those are all legit answers in my opinion.
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Level 59
Feb 18, 2024
Hmmm, I make a lot of vanilla sponge cakes and never put salt or milk in the mix.
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Level 15
Feb 19, 2024
How do people forget flour