Chocolate Pound Cake
sugarhero.com · 2015 · 14
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More butter than 92% of recipes and more sugar than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 92% of recipes: 120% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- More sugar than 89% of recipes: 175% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- More egg than 91% of recipes: 106% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (10)
- 5 oz cake flour ((1 ¼ cups) )142 g
- 2 oz unsweetened cocoa powder ((2/3 cup) )57 g
- 1/3 tsp salt≈ 2 g
- 6 oz unsalted butter (at room temperature)170 g
- 8.75 oz granulated sugar ((1 ¼ cups))248 g
- 3 large eggs (at room temperature)≈ 150 g
- 2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 2 tsp instant espresso powder (optional)≈ 4.8 g
- 4 oz heavy cream ((1/2 cup) )113 g
- 4 oz bittersweet chocolate (finely grated)113 g
flour 142 gbatter 1009 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.
- Butter120% · 93rd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar175% · 90th percentile · median 120%
- Egg106% · 91st percentile · median 80%
- Dairy80% · 86th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.4% · 78th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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