Basic Pound Cake
bakedbyanintrovert.com · 2020 · 12
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More butter than 96% of recipes and more sugar than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 96% of recipes: 123% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- More sugar than 84% of recipes: 162% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 cups unsalted butter (softened)≈ 454 g
- 3 cups granulated sugar≈ 600 g
- 5 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 250 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1 teaspoon almond extract≈ 4.2 g
- 3 ¼ cups cake flour (sifted)≈ 371 g
- ½ teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ¾ cup milk (room temperature)≈ 183 g
flour 371 gbatter 1875 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.
- Butter123% · 96th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar162% · 85th percentile · median 120%
- Egg68% · 27th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy49% · 54th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.6% · 30th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 56th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 85 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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