Chai-Spiced Pound Cake

Charlotte Rutledge · kingarthurbaking.com · 20 / 1 bundt-style cake

Against 462 pound cake recipes

Less egg than 97% of recipes and more salt than 98%.

How it compares

Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.

Less egg than 97% of recipes: 42% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%, about half as much.
More salt than 98% of recipes: 2.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 3.5 times as much.
More dairy than 93% of recipes: 95% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%, about twice as much.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

16 tablespoons (227g) unsalted butter, at room temperature, at least 65°F227 g
1 cup (213g) light brown sugar, packed213 g
1/4 cup (85g) honey85 g
2 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 100 g
1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
1/4 teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
1 teaspoon table salt≈ 6 g
3 tablespoons (21g) King Arthur Chai Spice, or 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 2 teaspoons ginger, 2 teaspoons cardamom, 1 1/2 teaspoons allspice, and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper21 g
2 cups (240g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour240 g
1 cup (227g) sour cream or yogurt, full-fat preferred, at room temperature227 g
2 teaspoons King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 8 g

flour 240 gbatter 1134 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 462 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: butter, sugar, egg, dairy, leavening, salt.