Old-Fashioned Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Kim Lange · thebakingchocolatess.com · 2016 · 8 Servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More dairy than 88% of recipes and no salt, unlike 75%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More dairy than 88% of recipes: 84% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 46%.
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (13)
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 8 oz cream cheese (softened)227 g
- 1 cup butter (softened)≈ 227 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 4 eggs≈ 200 g
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour≈ 156 g
- 1 cup cake flour≈ 114 g
- ½ teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 1 Vanilla Bean (scraped)n/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 cups powdered sugar≈ 240 g
- 1 vanilla bean (scraped)n/a
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2-3 teaspoons vanilla almond milk or milk≈ 11 g
flour 270 gbatter 1239 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.
- Butter84% · 35th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar111% · 45th percentile · median 120%
- Egg74% · 36th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy84% · 89th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0.9% · 36th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 50 to 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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