Black Pepper Pound Cake

Taste of Home Editorial Team · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · 16 servings

Against 462 pound cake recipes

Less butter than 83% of recipes and no leavening, unlike 76%.

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 leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
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%.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

flour 375 gbatter 1763 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 462 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: butter, sugar, egg, dairy, leavening, salt.