Cream Cheese Poundcake
tasha_durbin · nigella.com · Serves: 12
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More sugar than 90% 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 sugar than 90% of recipes: 175% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
- Less butter than 79% of recipes: 66% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
Ingredients (6)
- 1 cup butter (room temperature)≈ 227 g
- 8 ounces cream cheese (room temperature)227 g
- 3 cups sugar≈ 600 g
- 6 eggs≈ 300 g
- 3 cups sifted cake flour≈ 342 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla≈ 8 g
flour 342 gbatter 1704 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.
- Butter66% · 20th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar175% · 92nd percentile · median 120%
- Egg88% · 67th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy66% · 76th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 70 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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