Powdered Sugar Pound Cake
plainchicken.com · 2020 · 12 people
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less sugar than 84% of recipes and no leavening, unlike 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 84% of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
- No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (6)
- ¾ pound butter, (room temperature (3 sticks))340 g
- 1 (16-oz) box powdered sugar454 g
- 6 eggs≈ 300 g
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 1 tsp lemon juice≈ 4.9 g
- 4 cups cake flour≈ 456 g
flour 456 gbatter 1567 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.
- Butter75% · 25th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar100% · 16th percentile · median 120%
- Egg66% · 20th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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