Brown Sugar Pound Cake
12tomatoes.com · Serves 12
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More sugar than 98% of recipes and more butter than 93%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 98% of recipes: 229% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%, about twice as much.
- More butter than 93% of recipes: 121% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- More dairy than 88% of recipes: 84% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 67% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (15)
- 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened≈ 341 g
- 2 cups brown sugar≈ 440 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
- 5 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 250 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 1 cup evaporated milk≈ 252 g
- 1/4 cup evaporated milk≈ 63 g
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter≈ 114 g
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed≈ 220 g
- 1/4 teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2-3 cups powdered sugar≈ 300 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
flour 375 gbatter 2269 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 462 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter121% · 95th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar229% · 99th percentile · median 120%
- Egg67% · 24th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy84% · 89th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.6% · 30th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.2% · 70th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 75 to 80 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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