Velvet Pound Cake
Allison Furbish · kingarthurbaking.com · 16 / one 9" x 5" loaf cake
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More egg than 96% of recipes and more salt than 96%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 96% of recipes: 119% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More salt than 96% of recipes: 2.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 3 times as much.
Ingredients (9)
- 14 tablespoons (198g) unsalted butter, at room temperature, at least 65°F198 g
- 3 ounces (85g) cream cheese, at room temperature85 g
- 3/4 teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
- 1 1/2 cups (298g) granulated sugar298 g
- 1 3/4 cups (210g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour210 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 2 teaspoons King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 8 g
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract≈ 1.1 g
- 5 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 250 g
flour 210 gbatter 1060 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.
- Butter94% · 55th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar142% · 65th percentile · median 120%
- Egg119% · 97th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy41% · 48th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening2.2% · 62nd percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt2.1% · 96th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 85 to 90 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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