Pecan Pound Cake Recipe
aspicyperspective.com · 2020 · 24 slices (2 loaves)
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More salt than 91% of recipes and less egg than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 91% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Less egg than 83% of recipes: 60% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (10)
- 1 pound unsalted butter ((4 sticks) softened and divided)454 g
- 3 cups brown sugar, (packed and divided)≈ 660 g
- 6 large eggs≈ 300 g
- 4 cups all-purpose flour≈ 500 g
- 1 1/4 cups whole milk, (divided)≈ 305 g
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract, (divided)≈ 13 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt≈ 9 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 cups powdered sugar≈ 240 g
- 1 cup broken pecan pieces≈ 237 g
flour 500 gbatter 2245 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% · 43rd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar132% · 58th percentile · median 120%
- Egg60% · 15th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy61% · 64th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.9% · 36th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.8% · 93rd percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 65 to 80 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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