The Ritz Carlton Lemon Pound Cake
plainchicken.com · 2011 · 1 cake
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More leavening than 84% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 84% of recipes: 3.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 160% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 67% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (10)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1 Tbsp baking powder≈ 14 g
- ¾ tsp salt≈ 4.5 g
- 3 cups sugar≈ 600 g
- 1 cup unsalted butter, (room temperature)≈ 227 g
- ½ cup Crisco shortening≈ 103 g
- 5 large eggs≈ 250 g
- 1 cup whole milk≈ 244 g
- 6 Tbsp lemon juice≈ 89 g
- 1 lemon, (zested)n/a
flour 375 gbatter 1906 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%
- Egg67% · 24th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy65% · 73rd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening3.7% · 86th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.2% · 70th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 55 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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