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Quatre-quarts marbré

Original in French

La · cuisine.journaldesfemmes.fr · 2025 · 4 personnes

Against 462 pound cake recipes

More leavening than 91% of recipes and no dairy, unlike 67%.

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How it compares

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

  • More leavening than 91% of recipes: 4.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 3 times as much.
  • No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
  • Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
  • Butter in the middle half of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
Butter: 100%, 72nd percentileSugar: 100%, 24th percentileEgg: 80%, 50th percentileDairy: 0%, 16th percentileLeavening: 4.4%, 93rd percentileSalt: 0.2%, 30th percentileButterSugarEggDairyLeaveningSalt
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (7)

  • 250 g de farine de blé Ebly®250 g
  • 4 oeufs≈ 200 g
  • 250 g de sucre en poudre250 g
  • 1 cuillère à soupe de chocolat en poudre non sucré≈ 13 g
  • 250 g de beurre fondu250 g
  • 1 sachet de levure11 g
  • 1 pincée de sel≈ 0.4 g

flour 250 gbatter 974 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
  • Sugar100% · 24th percentile
  • Egg80% · 50th percentile
  • Dairy0% · 16th percentile
  • Leavening4.4% · 93rd percentile
  • Salt0.2% · 30th percentile

Oven

Temperature
350°F / 175°C
median 350°F
Time
45 minutes
median 60 minutes

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