Pistachio Pound Cake Recipe
baking-sense.com · 2024 · 14 slices
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More egg than 99% of recipes and more butter than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 99% of recipes: 131% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More butter than 91% of recipes: 119% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (12)
- 5 large eggs (room temp)≈ 250 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 2 ½ oz raw pistachios (½ cup)71 g
- 6 ¾ oz cake flour (1 ½ cups, see note)191 g
- ¼ teaspoon table salt≈ 1.5 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 10 oz granulated sugar (1 ¼ cups)284 g
- 8 oz unsalted butter (room temp)227 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 oz raw pistachios (scant ¼ cup)28 g
- 4 oz confectioner sugar (1 cup)113 g
- 1 oz whole milk (2 tablespoons)28 g
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 1.1 g
flour 191 gbatter 1037 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.
- Butter119% · 92nd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar148% · 69th percentile · median 120%
- Egg131% · 99th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening2.4% · 66th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 56th 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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