Southern Pound Cake
africanbites.com · 2026 · 12
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More salt than 88% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 88% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Leavening in the middle half of recipes: 2.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
Ingredients (8)
- 12 ounces (340g) unsalted butter, (softened)340 g
- 2½ cups (500g) granulated sugar500 g
- 6 large eggs (at room temperature)≈ 300 g
- 3 cups (360g) all-purpose flour360 g
- 2 teaspoons (10g) baking powder10 g
- 1 teaspoon (5-6g) salt6 g
- ½ cup (120ml) milk≈ 122 g
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) vanilla extract≈ 13 g
flour 360 gbatter 1651 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.
- Butter94% · 56th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar139% · 63rd percentile · median 120%
- Egg83% · 63rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy34% · 45th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening2.8% · 75th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.7% · 90th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 300°F / 150°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 80 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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