Sourdough Pound Cake
savorthebest.com · 2025 · 10 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More salt than 96% of recipes and more butter than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 96% of recipes: 2.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 3 times as much.
- More butter than 85% of recipes: 108% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- Less sugar than 87% of recipes: 95% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- More leavening than 81% of recipes: 3.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (10)
- 16 tablespoons butter (at room temp, 227 grams)227 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar (200 grams)200 g
- 4 large eggs (room temp)≈ 200 g
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour (210 grams)210 g
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- ¾ teaspoon salt≈ 4.5 g
- ¼ cup milk (room temp, 56 grams)56 g
- ½ cup sourdough discard (100% hydration, 120 grams)120 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract (optional)≈ 1.1 g
flour 210 gbatter 1038 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.
- Butter108% · 86th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar95% · 13th percentile · median 120%
- Egg95% · 74th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy27% · 39th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening3.3% · 82nd percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt2.1% · 96th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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