Orange Poundcake
wood nymph · nigella.com · Serves: 6
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less egg than 90% of recipes and less butter than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 90% of recipes: 53% 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 salt than 82% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
Ingredients (11)
- ½ pound butter227 g
- 2 cups sugar≈ 400 g
- 4 eggs≈ 200 g
- 6 oranges (zest of - 1/3 cup)n/a
- 3 cups flour≈ 375 g
- ½ teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- ¼ cup orange juice≈ 59 g
- ¾ cup buttermilk≈ 183 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla≈ 4.2 g
flour 375 gbatter 1460 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.
- Butter61% · 12th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar107% · 39th percentile · median 120%
- Egg53% · 7th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy49% · 52nd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.4% · 47th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.6% · 86th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 50 to 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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