Classic One-Bowl Pound Cake
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Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less sugar than 90% of recipes and no leavening, unlike 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 90% of recipes: 88% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
- More butter than 80% of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (6)
- 2 cups (4 sticks) salted butter, at room temperature≈ 454 g
- 2 cups granulated sugar≈ 400 g
- 9 large eggs≈ 450 g
- 1 lb (3 1/4 cups) all-purpose flour454 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Optional: 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon almond extract≈ 4.2 g
- Fruit and/or whipped cream for serving, optionaln/a
flour 454 gbatter 1758 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.
- Butter100% · 81st percentile · median 91%
- Sugar88% · 10th percentile · median 120%
- Egg99% · 78th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 65 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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