Lemon Poppy Seed Pound Cake
inlaurasbakery.com · 2026 · 12 slices
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less butter than 99% of recipes and less sugar than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 99% of recipes: 46% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%, about half as much.
- Less sugar than 90% of recipes: 88% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- More leavening than 93% of recipes: 4.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 3 times as much.
- More dairy than 91% of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (11)
- 200 grams all-purpose flour200 g
- 175 grams white caster sugar or fine sugar175 g
- 2 tsp baking powder≈ 9 g
- Pinch of salt≈ 0.4 g
- Zest of 2 lemonsn/a
- 10 grams poppy seeds10 g
- 175 ml yogurt≈ 181 g
- 3 eggs≈ 150 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 100 ml sunflower oil≈ 92 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 150 grams powdered sugar150 g
flour 200 gbatter 822 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.
- Butter46% · 1st percentile · median 91%
- Sugar88% · 9th percentile · median 120%
- Egg75% · 37th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy91% · 92nd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening4.6% · 94th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.2% · 30th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 345°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 50 to 55 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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