Pound Cake
rasamalaysia.com · 2019 · 12 slices
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Close to the middle of 462 pound cake recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Leavening in the middle half of recipes: 0.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 88% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 cups cake flour (sifted )≈ 228 g
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder≈ 1.2 g
- 1/4 teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 2 sticks unsalted butter ( softened)≈ 226 g
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar≈ 250 g
- 4 large eggs≈ 200 g
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest (finely grated, optional)≈ 2 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream≈ 79 g
flour 228 gbatter 992 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.
- Butter99% · 61st percentile · median 91%
- Sugar110% · 44th percentile · median 120%
- Egg88% · 67th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy35% · 45th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.5% · 27th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.7% · 49th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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