Key Lime Pound Cake
plainchicken.com · 2021 · 12 people
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Close to the middle of 462 pound cake recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 160% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- Dairy in the middle half of recipes: 65% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
Ingredients (14)
- 1 cup butter, (softened)≈ 227 g
- ½ cup Crisco shortening≈ 103 g
- 3 cups sugar≈ 600 g
- 6 large eggs≈ 300 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- ½ tsp baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- ⅛ tsp salt≈ 0.8 g
- 1 cup milk≈ 244 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- ¼ cup key lime juice≈ 59 g
- 1 tsp key lime zest≈ 2 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup powdered sugar≈ 120 g
- 2 Tbsp key lime juice≈ 30 g
- ½ tsp vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
flour 375 gbatter 1917 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.
- Butter88% · 39th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar160% · 79th percentile · median 120%
- Egg80% · 50th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy65% · 73rd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.6% · 30th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.2% · 30th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 15 to 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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