Elvis Presley's Favorite Pound Cake
12tomatoes.com · Serves 9
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More sugar than 90% of recipes and more egg than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 175% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- More egg than 90% of recipes: 102% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (6)
- 3 cups granulated sugar≈ 600 g
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened≈ 227 g
- 7 eggs, at room temperature≈ 350 g
- 3 cups cake flour, sifted twice≈ 342 g
- 1 cup heavy cream≈ 238 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
flour 342 gbatter 1765 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.
- Butter66% · 20th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar175% · 92nd percentile · median 120%
- Egg102% · 90th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy70% · 79th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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