Lulu's Classic Pound Cake
plainchicken.com · 2020 · 12 people
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less butter than 83% of recipes and no salt, unlike 75%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 83% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
- 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 (8)
- 1 cup unsalted butter, (softened)≈ 227 g
- 3 cups sugar≈ 600 g
- 5 eggs≈ 250 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1 cup sour cream≈ 230 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- ½ tsp lemon extract≈ 2.1 g
flour 375 gbatter 1693 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%
- Sugar160% · 79th percentile · median 120%
- Egg67% · 24th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy61% · 66th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.2% · 41st percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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