Quatre-quarts classique
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Latelierdestephetlolie · cuisine.journaldesfemmes.fr · 2025 · 6 personnes
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More salt than 98% 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.
- More salt than 98% of recipes: 2.5% 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%.
- No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (6)
- 200 g de farine200 g
- 200 g de beurre fondu200 g
- 200 g de sucre en poudre200 g
- 4 oeufs≈ 200 g
- 1 cuillère à café de vanille liquide≈ 4.2 g
- 5 g de sel5 g
flour 200 gbatter 809 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%
- Sugar100% · 24th percentile · median 120%
- Egg100% · 83rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt2.5% · 99th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 45 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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