Most Delicious Matcha Pound Cake
Michelle · siftandsimmer.com · 2021 · 12
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More egg than 98% of recipes and less sugar than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 98% of recipes: 129% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- Less sugar than 85% of recipes: 97% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (10)
- 4 eggs, separated (separate egg whites from yolks while cold, and then brought up to room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 155 g all-purpose flour155 g
- 20 g cornstarch20 g
- 9 g matcha (sifted)9 g
- 3 g baking powder3 g
- 1/4 tsp cream of tartar (or use 1 tsp lemon juice or white vinegar )≈ 1.2 g
- 150 g granulated sugar (divided (50g and 100g))150 g
- 140 g salted butter (room temp)140 g
- 45 ml whole milk (room temp)≈ 46 g
- 4 ml vanilla extract≈ 3.4 g
flour 155 gbatter 728 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.
- Butter90% · 41st percentile · median 91%
- Sugar97% · 14th percentile · median 120%
- Egg129% · 99th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy30% · 40th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.9% · 55th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 65 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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