Key Lime Pound Cake Recipe
baking-sense.com · 2022 · 16 slices
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More sugar than 96% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 96% of recipes: 200% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
Ingredients (15)
- 3 large eggs≈ 150 g
- 3 egg yolks≈ 54 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2 oz sour cream (1/4 cup)57 g
- finely grated zest from 2 limesn/a
- 1 oz lime juice (2 tablespoons)28 g
- 9 oz cake flour (2 cups, see note)255 g
- ¼ teaspoon table salt≈ 1.5 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 10 oz granulated sugar (1 1/4 cups)284 g
- 9 oz unsalted butter (room temperature)255 g
- 6 oz Lime Curd (2/3 cup, no gelatin)170 g
- 8 oz confectioner's sugar (2 cups)227 g
- 1 oz fresh lime juice (2 tablespoons)28 g
- finely grated zest from 1 limen/a
flour 255 gbatter 1519 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.
- Butter100% · 72nd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar200% · 97th percentile · median 120%
- Egg80% · 40th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy22% · 36th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.8% · 52nd percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.6% · 46th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 40 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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