Chocolate Pound Cake
Maki Yazawa · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · 16 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
No salt, unlike 75% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 160% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
Ingredients (10)
- 1 cup butter, softened≈ 227 g
- 1/2 cup shortening≈ 103 g
- 3 cups sugar≈ 600 g
- 6 large eggs, room temperature≈ 300 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 1/4 cup baking cocoa≈ 22 g
- 1 cup 2% milk≈ 244 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Confectioners' sugar, optionaln/a
flour 375 gbatter 1885 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.
- Butter88% · 39th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar160% · 79th percentile · median 120%
- Egg80% · 50th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy65% · 73rd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.6% · 30th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 70 to 80 minutes
- median 60 minutes
Keep exploring
Recipes most like this one
Nearest by baker's percentages: butter, sugar, egg, dairy, leavening, salt.
Do something with it
Or browse all 462 pound cake recipes.