Browned Butter Pound Cake
Samantha Seneviratne · foodnetwork.com · 2016 · 12 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More butter than 98% of recipes and less sugar than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 98% of recipes: 143% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- Less sugar than 88% of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- More salt than 91% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More leavening than 80% of recipes: 3.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (10)
- 19 tablespoons (2 sticks plus 3 tablespoons) unsalted butter, plus more for the pan≈ 312 g
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour≈ 219 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
- 4 large eggs≈ 200 g
- 1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scrapedn/a
- 3 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature85 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar≈ 30 g
- 2 to 4 tablespoons warm milk≈ 46 g
flour 219 gbatter 1027 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.
- Butter143% · 99th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar91% · 11th percentile · median 120%
- Egg91% · 72nd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy39% · 47th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening3.2% · 81st percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.8% · 93rd percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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