Pineapple Pound Cake
Tricia · savingdessert.com · 2017 · 12 Slices
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More sugar than 90% of recipes and more dairy than 86%.
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%.
- More dairy than 86% of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (9)
- 2 cups granulated sugar≈ 400 g
- 1 cup unsalted butter, (room temperature)≈ 227 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste≈ 4.2 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ¾ cup buttermilk, (well shaken)≈ 183 g
- 4 extra large eggs, (room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 2 cups cake flour, (sifted after measuring)≈ 228 g
- 1 8-ounce can crushed pineapple with juice, (lightly drained with reserved juice set aside for glaze)227 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup powdered sugar ((more or less as needed) for glaze)≈ 120 g
flour 228 gbatter 1472 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%
- Egg88% · 67th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy80% · 86th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.3% · 75th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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