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Pound Cake à la vanille

Original in French

ça ne sent pas un peu le brûlé là? · chefsimon.com · 2020

Against 462 pound cake recipes

Less sugar than 90% of recipes and more salt than 93%.

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How it compares

Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.

  • Less sugar than 90% of recipes: 88% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
  • More salt than 93% of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
  • No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
  • No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
Butter: 78%, 30th percentileSugar: 88%, 9th percentileEgg: 78%, 39th percentileDairy: 0%, 16th percentileLeavening: 0%, 12th percentileSalt: 1.9%, 94th percentileButterSugarEggDairyLeaveningSalt
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (7)

  • 5 œufs≈ 250 g
  • 320 g de farine320 g
  • 250 g de beurre250 g
  • 280 g de sucre en poudre280 g
  • 1 petite cuillère à café de sel≈ 6 g
  • 1 sachet de sucre vanillé8 g
  • 1 cuillère à café d'arôme vanille≈ 4.2 g

flour 320 gbatter 1118 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.

  • Butter78% · 30th percentile
  • Sugar88% · 9th percentile
  • Egg78% · 39th percentile
  • Dairy0% · 16th percentile
  • Leavening0% · 12th percentile
  • Salt1.9% · 94th percentile

Oven

Temperature
not stated
median 350°F
Time
not stated
median 60 minutes

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