Easy Pound Cake
Julianne Dell · beyondfrosting.com · 2021 · 10 sliced
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less egg than 86% of recipes and more dairy than 81%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 86% of recipes: 60% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More dairy than 81% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 ½ cups (339g) unsalted butter, at room temperature339 g
- 3 cups (570g) granulated sugar570 g
- 5 Large eggs, at room temperature≈ 250 g
- 1 teaspoon (5ml) pure vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 3 cups (420g) sifted all-purpose flour420 g
- ½ teaspoons baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 1 ¼ cups whole milk, at room temperature≈ 305 g
flour 420 gbatter 1892 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.
- Butter81% · 33rd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar136% · 61st percentile · median 120%
- Egg60% · 13th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy73% · 82nd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.5% · 27th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.4% · 40th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 55 to 65 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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