Pound Cake
Original in French
Camille Paleologos · cuisineaz.com · 2021 · 8
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less sugar than 93% of recipes and more salt than 96%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 93% of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- More salt than 96% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 3.5 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).
- More egg than 77% of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (6)
- 2 tasse(s) Farine≈ 250 g
- 250 g Beurre250 g
- 1 tasse(s) Sucre≈ 200 g
- 1 c. à café Sel≈ 6 g
- 1 sachet(s) Sucre vanillé8 g
- 5 Œuf(s)≈ 250 g
flour 250 gbatter 964 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.
- Butter100% · 72nd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar80% · 5th percentile · median 120%
- Egg100% · 83rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt2.4% · 98th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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