Chocolate Pound Cake
Amanda Rettke--iambaker.net · iambaker.net · 2023 · 12 slices
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More sugar than 98% of recipes and more egg than 93%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 98% of recipes: 214% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- More egg than 93% of recipes: 107% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More dairy than 86% of recipes: 81% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 cup (2 sticks / 227 g) unsalted butter, (softened)227 g
- 8 ounces cream cheese, (softened)227 g
- 3 cups (600 g) granulated sugar600 g
- 6 large eggs, (room temperature)≈ 300 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2 ¼ cups (281 g) cake flour281 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- ¾ cup (64 g) Dutch-processed cocoa64 g
- 1 pinch kosher salt≈ 0.4 g
flour 281 gbatter 1708 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.
- Butter81% · 33rd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar214% · 98th percentile · median 120%
- Egg107% · 94th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy81% · 87th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.6% · 49th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.1% · 25th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 75 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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