Red Velvet Pound Cake
12tomatoes.com · Serves 10
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More dairy than 85% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More dairy than 85% of recipes: 79% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 160% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
Ingredients (16)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder≈ 22 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature≈ 341 g
- 3 cups granulated sugar≈ 600 g
- 6 large eggs≈ 300 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla≈ 8 g
- 1/2 cup sour cream≈ 115 g
- 1/4 cup black coffee≈ 59 g
- 1/2 cup buttermilk≈ 122 g
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar≈ 4.9 g
- red food coloring, to preferencen/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup powdered sugar≈ 120 g
- 1/4 cup milk≈ 61 g
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 1.1 g
flour 375 gbatter 1959 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.
- Butter91% · 48th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar160% · 79th percentile · median 120%
- Egg80% · 50th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy79% · 86th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening2.5% · 69th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 56th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 70 to 80 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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