Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Melissa Stadler, Modern Honey · modernhoney.com · 2018 · 16
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More sugar than 90% of recipes and less egg than 87%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 175% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- Less egg than 87% of recipes: 59% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More salt than 91% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 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 (9)
- 1 1/2 cups Unsalted Butter (3 Sticks, softened)≈ 341 g
- 6 ounces Cream Cheese (softened)170 g
- 3 cups Sugar≈ 600 g
- 1 Tablespoon Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 13 g
- 4 Eggs plus 2 Egg Yolks≈ 200 g
- 1/4 cup Whole Milk (or Buttermilk)≈ 61 g
- 3 cups Cake Flour≈ 342 g
- 1 teaspoon Salt≈ 6 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Powdered Sugar (to dust on the cake after baking)n/a
flour 342 gbatter 1732 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.
- Butter100% · 63rd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar175% · 92nd percentile · median 120%
- Egg59% · 13th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy68% · 78th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.8% · 93rd percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 300°F / 150°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 75 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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