Simple Marble Pound Cake Recipe
biggerbolderbaking.com · 2022 · 6 people
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: 106% 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 (9)
- 1 cup (8 oz/225 g) butter ((softened))225 g
- 1½ cups (12 oz/340 g) granulated sugar340 g
- 4 large eggs ((at room temperature))≈ 200 g
- ¼ cup (2 oz/57 g) sour cream ((at room temperature))57 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 1 ½ cups (7½ oz/213 g) all-purpose flour213 g
- ¼ cup (1 oz/28 g) cornstarch28 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder ((sifted))≈ 11 g
flour 213 gbatter 1088 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.
- Butter106% · 85th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar160% · 73rd percentile · median 120%
- Egg94% · 73rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy27% · 39th 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
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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