Sweet Potato Pound Cake with Salted Caramel Glaze

thecafesucrefarine.com · 2024 · 16 servings

Against 462 pound cake recipes

Less butter than 95% of recipes and less egg than 98%.

How it compares

Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.

Less butter than 95% of recipes: 58% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
Less egg than 98% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%, about half as much.
More leavening than 80% of recipes: 3.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about twice as much.

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

1 ½ cups mashed sweet potatoes (see the post above)≈ 225 g
1 cup neutral flavored oil≈ 218 g
1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
¾ cup brown sugar (firmly packed (I use dark brown sugar but light brown will also work))≈ 165 g
3 large eggs≈ 150 g
2 teaspoons baking soda≈ 12 g
½ teaspoon kosher salt (I use Morton)≈ 2 g
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon≈ 3.9 g
½ teaspoon ground ginger≈ 1.3 g
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg≈ 0.7 g
¼ teaspoon ground cloves≈ 0.7 g
1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
¼ teaspoon almond extract≈ 1.1 g
3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
¼ cup water≈ 59 g
¾ cup powdered sugar≈ 90 g
½ teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

¼ cup butter (I use salted)≈ 57 g
½ cup brown sugar (firmly packed (I use dark brown sugar but light brown will also work))≈ 110 g
¼ cup half and half or cream≈ 60 g

flour 375 gbatter 1510 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.