Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze
Amanda Rettke--iambaker.net · iambaker.net · 2026 · 12 people
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less egg than 96% of recipes.
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: 46% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 78% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
Ingredients (11)
- 2 ½ cups (500 g) granulated sugar500 g
- 1 ½ cups (3 sticks / 340 g) unsalted butter, (softened)340 g
- 4 large eggs, (room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 3 ½ cups (437.5 g) all-purpose flour438 g
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 cup (245 g) buttermilk245 g
- 2 teaspoons lemon extract≈ 8 g
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest≈ 6 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 cups (250 g) confectioners' sugar250 g
- ¼ cup lemon juice≈ 59 g
flour 438 gbatter 1742 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.
- Butter78% · 29th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar114% · 47th percentile · median 120%
- Egg46% · 3rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy56% · 58th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.7% · 33rd percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.5% · 44th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 75 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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