Orange Pound Cake with Bourbon Glaze
Susan Reid · kingarthurbaking.com · 16 slices / one large Bundt cake or 9" loaf cake
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less butter than 82% of recipes and more leavening than 87%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 82% of recipes: 63% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- More leavening than 87% of recipes: 3.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 2.5 times as much.
- No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (11)
- 16 tablespoons (227g) unsalted butter, at room temperature, at least 65°F227 g
- 2 cups (397g) granulated sugar397 g
- 5 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 250 g
- 3 cups (360g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour360 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt≈ 3 g
- 3/4 cup (170g) orange juice170 g
- zest of 1 orangen/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 4 tablespoons (57g) butter, melted57 g
- 1 cup (113g) confectioners' sugar113 g
- 2 tablespoons (28g) bourbon or rum28 g
flour 360 gbatter 1421 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.
- Butter63% · 18th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar110% · 45th percentile · median 120%
- Egg69% · 30th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening3.8% · 88th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 56th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 50 to 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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