Sourdough Pound Cake
littlespoonfarm.com · 2025 · 12 slices
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More salt than 96% of recipes and no leavening, unlike 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 96% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 3.5 times as much.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (8)
- 2 sticks unsalted butter (room temperature)≈ 226 g
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 4 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 1/4 cup milk (room temperature)≈ 61 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1/2 cup sourdough discard (room temperature)≈ 120 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
flour 250 gbatter 1167 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.
- Butter90% · 42nd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar120% · 51st percentile · median 120%
- Egg80% · 50th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy24% · 37th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt2.4% · 98th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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