Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe
John Kanell · preppykitchen.com · 2024 · 12 to 14 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
No leavening, unlike 76% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
- Dairy in the middle half of recipes: 63% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
Ingredients (8)
- 1½ cups unsalted butter (softened (339g))339 g
- 8 ounces cream cheese (softened (227g))227 g
- 2½ cups granulated sugar ((450g))450 g
- 6 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 300 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour ((360g))360 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Confectioners’ sugar (for serving)n/a
flour 360 gbatter 1692 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.
- Butter94% · 55th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar125% · 54th percentile · median 120%
- Egg83% · 63rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy63% · 69th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 56th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 75 to 80 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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