Pistachio Pound Cake + White Chocolate Glaze
biggerbolderbaking.com · 2025 · 10 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less egg than 87% 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.
- Less egg than 87% of recipes: 59% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (11)
- ¾ cup (3 ¾ oz/105 g) raw pistachios105 g
- 1 cup (8 oz/225 g) butter, softened225 g
- 1 ¼ cups (10 oz/282 g) granulated sugar282 g
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 150 g
- ⅓ cup (2½ fl oz/71 ml) whole milk, at room temperature≈ 81 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- ½ teaspoon almond extract≈ 2.1 g
- 2 cups (9 oz/256 g) cake flour256 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 ⅓ cups (8 oz/225 g) good quality white chocolate bar, finely chopped225 g
- ¼ cup (2 fl oz/60 ml) heavy cream≈ 60 g
flour 256 gbatter 1109 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.
- Butter88% · 39th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar110% · 45th percentile · median 120%
- Egg59% · 13th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy32% · 42nd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.2% · 70th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 75 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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