Quatre-quarts nature
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mathilde · cuisine.journaldesfemmes.fr · 2025 · 6 personnes
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More butter than 88% 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 butter than 88% of recipes: 111% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
- 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%.
Ingredients (5)
- 200 g de beurre200 g
- 180 g de sucre180 g
- 3 oeufs≈ 150 g
- 180 g de farine180 g
- 1 pincée de sel≈ 0.4 g
flour 180 gbatter 710 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.
- Butter111% · 88th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar100% · 24th percentile · median 120%
- Egg83% · 63rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.2% · 30th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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