Lemon Pound Cake Recipe
shugarysweets.com · 2025 · 20 servings
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 dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (8)
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened to room temperature≈ 341 g
- 3 cups granulated sugar≈ 600 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 5 large eggs≈ 250 g
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 lemon, zestedn/a
- 3 cups cake flour≈ 342 g
- 1/2 cup lemon lime soda≈ 119 g
flour 342 gbatter 1659 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%
- Egg73% · 35th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.2% · 70th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 15 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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