Perfect Pound Cake
Bettie · bakerbettie.com · 2018 · 1
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More butter than 84% of recipes and no leavening, unlike 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 84% of recipes: 105% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (7)
- 215 grams (2 cups minus 2 tablespoons) cake flour215 g
- ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt≈ 1.5 g
- 226 grams (1 cup, 2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature226 g
- 300 grams (1 ½ cups) granulated sugar300 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 4 large eggs, room temperature≈ 200 g
- 60 grams (¼ cup) sour cream, room temperature60 g
flour 215 gbatter 1007 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.
- Butter105% · 84th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar140% · 64th percentile · median 120%
- Egg93% · 72nd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy28% · 40th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.7% · 49th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 55 to 65 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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