Easy Pound Cake Recipe
crazyforcrust.com · 2024 · 12 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More salt than 82% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 82% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 148% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 ½ cups (339g) unsalted butter (softened)339 g
- 2 ¾ cups (550g) granulated sugar550 g
- 6 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 300 g
- ½ teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- ¾ cup (184g) sour cream (room temperature)184 g
- 3 cups (372g) all purpose flour372 g
- 2 tablespoons (16g) cornstarch16 g
flour 372 gbatter 1774 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.
- Butter91% · 53rd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar148% · 68th percentile · median 120%
- Egg81% · 59th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy50% · 54th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.6% · 30th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.6% · 86th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 55 to 65 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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