[bearybow1972]

Hello! I came across the site looking for the equivalent of a cake of yeast. My recipe calls for one cake of yeast. I have fast acting dry yeast. I am not an expert but I really want to do this recipe. Can someone please help me? Thank You!!

[panini]

The cakes made for home use are usually 2 oz. or little 1/2 oz. cakes. I'm pretty sure if you use 2-2 1/4 oz. odf dry yeast to each cake you'll be ok?
Hopefully someone who uses the home stuff will pop on and correct me if I'm not remembering right.
pan
I'm in the US so cake to me means fresh yeast.

[foodnfoto]

One package of dry yeast or instant yeast is equal to one cake. Most of the weight in cake yeast is water, so using equivalent weights would cause you to use too much dry yeast.
One package of dry yeast measures 2 1/4 teaspoons.

[Z~BESTUS]

BEARYBOW1972:
Good afternoon to you. First, I am not certain what it is you are baking. If you are baking a yeasted lean bread... then a cake of yeast is .625 of an oz or it is referred to as .6 of an oz. Simply put instant yeast would be 1/3rd that amount or 2 teasp. If you are going to use that junk that comes in a envelope & requires hot water to activate it then that packet is exact 1/4 oz...use the whole thing. I hope this info will help you my friend. Good luck & have a nice day.

~Z~BESTUS.

[Jock]

By weight:

If cake or fresh yeast = 100% then -
Active dry = 40% and
Rapid Rise, Fast Acting (or whatever you call it) = 30%

So, whatever is the weight of cake yeast called for, use 30% of fast acting dry.

Jock

[auzzi]

One package active dry yeast contains 2 1/4 teaspoons and weighs 1/4 ounce
If using bulk dry yeast, measure 2 1/2 ts for 1 pkg yeast.

Commercially: One 2oz compressed cake of fresh yeast is made up of three 2/3 oz cakes. Each 2/3 oz cake of compressed fresh yeast can substitute for 1 package dry yeast

2/3 oz compressed fresh yeast = 2¼ ts active dry yeast = 2 ts instant yeast

Notes:
* Active dry yeast has a larger particle size than Instant Active Dry Yeast
* Instant/instant rise/rapid rise/quick rise/bread machine yeast has approx 20-25% greater leavening power than active dry yeast.

3 oz compressed fresh yeast = 8 teaspoons instant active dry = 10 teaspoons active dry