Pound Cake Recipe
preppykitchen.com · 2019 · 12 slices
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More egg than 95% of recipes and more sugar than 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 95% of recipes: 111% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More sugar than 86% of recipes: 167% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- Less butter than 82% of recipes: 63% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- More salt than 88% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour ((180g))180 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ½ teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature (113g))113 g
- 1½ cups granulated sugar ((300g))300 g
- 4 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 200 g
- ½ cup sour cream (room temperature (120g))120 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
flour 180 gbatter 927 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.
- Butter63% · 17th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar167% · 87th percentile · median 120%
- Egg111% · 95th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy67% · 76th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.3% · 45th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.7% · 90th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 65 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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