Buttermilk Pound Cake
africanbites.com · 2023 · 12
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More salt than 82% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 82% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Dairy in the middle half of recipes: 65% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
Ingredients (12)
- 1½ cup unsalted butter, (softened)≈ 341 g
- 2 cups sugar≈ 400 g
- 6 large eggs, (room temperature)≈ 300 g
- 3 cup all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 cup buttermilk, (room temperature)≈ 244 g
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 2 teaspoon lemon zest ((optional))≈ 4 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1½ cups confectioners sugar≈ 180 g
- ¼ cup buttermilk≈ 61 g
flour 375 gbatter 1690 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%
- Sugar107% · 39th percentile · median 120%
- Egg80% · 50th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy65% · 73rd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening2% · 58th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.6% · 86th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 300°F / 150°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 50 to 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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