Blood Orange Pound Cake
preppykitchen.com · 2018 · 10
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less sugar than 93% of recipes and less butter than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 93% of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- Less butter than 83% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- 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.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 67% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (13)
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)≈ 227 g
- ¾ cup blood orange juice≈ 178 g
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 5 large eggs≈ 250 g
- 3 cups flour≈ 375 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 3/4 cup orange juice≈ 178 g
- Zest of 1 blood orangen/a
- ½ cup sour cream≈ 115 g
- 1 tsp orange blossom water (optional)≈ 4.9 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 287 grams confectioners' sugar287 g
- Juice from 1 blood orange.n/a
flour 375 gbatter 1644 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%
- Sugar80% · 5th percentile · median 120%
- Egg67% · 24th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy32% · 43rd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening3.7% · 86th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 56th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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