Pound Cake
Makinze Gore · delish.com · 2023 · 1
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less sugar than 92% of recipes and more salt than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 92% of recipes: 83% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- More salt than 88% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Less egg than 82% of recipes: 63% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More dairy than 80% of recipes: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 c. (240 g.) all-purpose flour240 g
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder≈ 7 g
- 1 tsp. kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened≈ 227 g
- 1 c. (200 g.) granulated sugar200 g
- 3 large eggs, room temperature≈ 150 g
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1/2 tsp. almond extract≈ 2.1 g
- 3/4 c. (170 g.) sour cream, room temperature170 g
flour 240 gbatter 1004 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.
- Butter95% · 58th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar83% · 8th percentile · median 120%
- Egg63% · 17th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy71% · 80th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening2.9% · 77th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.7% · 90th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 55 to 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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