Classic Pound Cake Recipe
spendwithpennies.com · 2024 · 12 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More butter than 87% of recipes and less sugar than 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 87% of recipes: 109% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- Less sugar than 86% of recipes: 96% 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 (6)
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)≈ 227 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 4 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 1 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour≈ 208 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
flour 208 gbatter 841 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.
- Butter109% · 87th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar96% · 13th percentile · median 120%
- Egg96% · 75th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.7% · 49th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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