Glazed Bourbon Pecan Pound Cake
spendwithpennies.com · 2016 · 12 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less butter than 83% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 83% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- Leavening in the middle half of recipes: 2.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
Ingredients (16)
- 1 cup butter (softened)≈ 227 g
- 2 ½ cups granulated sugar≈ 500 g
- 6 eggs≈ 300 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg≈ 1.3 g
- 8 ounces sour cream227 g
- ½ cup bourbon≈ 119 g
- 1 ½ cups chopped pecans≈ 165 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- ¼ cup butter≈ 57 g
- ½ cup brown sugar (firmly packed)≈ 110 g
- 3 tablespoons milk≈ 46 g
- 1 cup powdered sugar≈ 120 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- ½ cups chopped pecans≈ 55 g
flour 375 gbatter 1926 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.
- Butter61% · 12th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar133% · 60th percentile · median 120%
- Egg80% · 50th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy61% · 62nd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening2.5% · 69th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 56th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 75 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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