Pound Cake
onceuponachef.com · 2024 · 16
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less butter than 80% of recipes and more dairy than 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 80% of recipes: 66% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 160% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- More dairy than 80% of recipes: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
Ingredients (8)
- 6 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 300 g
- 1 cup buttermilk (see note)≈ 244 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 2¾ cups all-purpose flour, spooned into measuring cup and leveled-off≈ 344 g
- 2¾ cups granulated sugar≈ 550 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- ¾ teaspoon salt≈ 4.5 g
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened≈ 226 g
flour 344 gbatter 1680 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% · 19th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar160% · 79th percentile · median 120%
- Egg87% · 66th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy71% · 81st percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.9% · 36th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.3% · 75th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 55 to 65 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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