Lemon Pound Cake
spendwithpennies.com · 2024 · 12 slices
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less butter than 83% of recipes and no salt, unlike 75%.
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%.
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (12)
- 2 tablespoons lemon zest≈ 12 g
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice≈ 30 g
- ½ cup butter (softened)≈ 114 g
- 3 eggs (room temperature)≈ 150 g
- ½ cup sour cream≈ 115 g
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour≈ 188 g
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder≈ 1.2 g
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup powdered sugar≈ 120 g
- 1 teaspoon melted butter≈ 4.7 g
- 2-3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice≈ 37 g
flour 188 gbatter 810 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%
- Sugar107% · 39th percentile · median 120%
- Egg80% · 50th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy61% · 66th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.4% · 47th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 55 to 65 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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