Granny's Pound Cake
Tricia · savingdessert.com · 2011 · 12
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More sugar than 90% 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.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 175% 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).
- More egg than 77% of recipes: 98% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (6)
- 8 oz cream cheese (room temperature)227 g
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)≈ 114 g
- 1 cup Parkay margarine (room temperature)≈ 227 g
- 3 cups granulated sugar≈ 600 g
- 3 cups cake flour (sifted after measuring)≈ 342 g
- 6 Jumbo eggs≈ 336 g
flour 342 gbatter 1845 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.
- Butter100% · 63rd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar175% · 92nd percentile · median 120%
- Egg98% · 77th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy66% · 76th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 300°F / 150°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 105 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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