Brown Butter Pound Cake
Makinze Gore · delish.com · 2025 · 8 - 10 serving(s)
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less egg than 96% of recipes and more butter than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 96% of recipes: 48% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More butter than 85% of recipes: 108% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- More dairy than 90% of recipes: 87% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
- More salt than 93% of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
Ingredients (13)
- 1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter≈ 227 g
- 1 3/4 c. (210 g.) all-purpose flour210 g
- 1 tsp. baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1 tsp. kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 1/2 c. (107 g.) packed light brown sugar107 g
- 1/2 c. (100 g.) granulated sugar100 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 3/4 c. whole milk≈ 183 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1/2 c. (1 stick) unsalted butter≈ 114 g
- 1 1/2 c. (170 g.) confectioners' sugar170 g
- 1/4 tsp. kosher salt≈ 1 g
- 2 tbsp. heavy cream≈ 30 g
flour 210 gbatter 940 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.
- Butter108% · 86th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar99% · 15th percentile · median 120%
- Egg48% · 3rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy87% · 91st percentile · median 46%
- Leavening2.2% · 62nd percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.9% · 94th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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