Elvis Presley's Favourite Vanilla Pound Cake
oopsyalicia · nigella.com · Serves: 12
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More salt than 99% of recipes and more egg than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 99% of recipes: 2.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 3.5 times as much.
- More egg than 91% of recipes: 107% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- Less butter than 83% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- More leavening than 95% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 3 times as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 4 ounces softened butter113 g
- 1½ cups superfine sugar≈ 300 g
- 1½ cups self-rising flour≈ 188 g
- ¼ cup cream≈ 60 g
- ¼ cup plain yogurt≈ 61 g
- ⅘ teaspoon salt≈ 4.8 g
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla bean paste≈ 6 g
- 4 eggs (at room temperature)≈ 200 g
flour 188 gbatter 933 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Butter61% · 12th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar160% · 79th percentile · median 120%
- Egg107% · 93rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy64% · 71st percentile · median 46%
- Leavening5% · 96th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt2.6% · 100th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 8 to 10 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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