Sweet-Potato Poundcake
countryliving.com · 2010 · 8 serving(s)
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less butter than 92% of recipes and less egg than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 92% of recipes: 60% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- Less egg than 90% of recipes: 53% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
- More leavening than 81% of recipes: 3.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (13)
- 1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour≈ 188 g
- 1 tsp. baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
- 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg≈ 1.3 g
- 1/4 tsp. baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 1/8 tsp. salt≈ 0.8 g
- 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature≈ 113 g
- 3/4 c. granulated sugar≈ 150 g
- 1/4 c. light-brown sugar≈ 55 g
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
- 1 c. leftover mashed sweet potatoes≈ 150 g
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 100 g
- 1/2 c. chopped pecans≈ 55 g
flour 188 gbatter 823 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.
- Butter60% · 7th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar109% · 44th percentile · median 120%
- Egg53% · 7th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening3.3% · 82nd percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.4% · 40th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 65 to 75 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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