Malted Brown Butter Pound Cake
Benjamina Ebuehi · nigella.com · Serves: 8
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less egg than 83% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 83% of recipes: 60% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
Ingredients (9)
- 250 grams unsalted butter (softened, plus extra for greasing)250 g
- 250 grams caster sugar250 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 3 eggs (at room temperature)≈ 150 g
- 250 grams plain flour250 g
- 2½ tablespoons malted milk powder (such as Horlicks)≈ 11 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 120 grams sour cream (at room temperature)120 g
flour 250 gbatter 1047 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% · 72nd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar100% · 24th percentile · median 120%
- Egg60% · 15th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy52% · 56th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.8% · 52nd percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.2% · 70th 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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