Tennessee Chocolate Pound Cake
12tomatoes.com · Serves 12
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Close to the middle of 462 pound cake recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 160% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 67% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (10)
- 2 sticks butter, room temperature, plus extra for greasing pan≈ 226 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons cocoa powder≈ 54 g
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening≈ 103 g
- 3 cups sugar≈ 600 g
- 5 eggs, room temperature≈ 250 g
- 1 cup milk≈ 244 g
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 13 g
flour 375 gbatter 1869 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.
- Butter88% · 38th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar160% · 79th percentile · median 120%
- Egg67% · 24th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy65% · 73rd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.6% · 30th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 56th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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