Black Walnut Pound Cake
Taste of Home Editorial Team · 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%.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 67% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (13)
- 1 cup butter, softened≈ 227 g
- 1/2 cup shortening≈ 103 g
- 3 cups sugar≈ 600 g
- 5 large eggs≈ 250 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1 cup whole milk≈ 244 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon almond extract≈ 1.6 g
- 1 cup chopped black walnuts≈ 120 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened227 g
- 1/4 cup butter, softened≈ 57 g
- 3-3/4 cups confectioners' sugar≈ 450 g
flour 375 gbatter 1929 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%
- Egg67% · 24th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy65% · 73rd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.2% · 41st percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 85 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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