Pound Cake from Heaven
plainchicken.com · 2016 · 12 people
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More dairy than 86% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More dairy than 86% of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
- 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)
- 1½ cups unsalted butter (softened)≈ 341 g
- 3 cups sugar≈ 600 g
- 5 large eggs≈ 250 g
- 3 cups all-purpose soft-wheat flour ((White Lily))≈ 375 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- ¼ tsp salt≈ 1.5 g
- 1 (5-oz) can evaporated milk142 g
- ⅔ cup heavy cream≈ 159 g
- 2 Tbsp vanilla extract≈ 25 g
- 1 tsp almond extract≈ 4.2 g
flour 375 gbatter 1902 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.
- Butter91% · 48th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar160% · 79th percentile · median 120%
- Egg67% · 24th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy80% · 86th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.2% · 41st percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.4% · 40th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 75 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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