The Best Pound Cake Recipe
theflavorbender.com · 2018 · 22 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
More butter than 90% of recipes and more egg than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 90% of recipes: 114% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- More egg than 89% of recipes: 101% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (7)
- 1 lb unsalted butter (softened at room temperature (4 sticks of butter))454 g
- ½ tsp fine sea salt≈ 3 g
- 1 lb cane sugar (or caster sugar (about 2 ¼ cups))454 g
- 8 large eggs (1 lb of eggs (with the shell))≈ 400 g
- 14 oz AP flour or cake flour (roughly 3 ¼ cups AP flour, spooned and leveled)397 g
- 1 tsp baking powder ((optional))≈ 4.6 g
- 2 tsp good quality vanilla extract (you can add almond extract, or any other flavor extract you prefer)≈ 8 g
flour 397 gbatter 1720 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.
- Butter114% · 91st percentile · median 91%
- Sugar114% · 47th percentile · median 120%
- Egg101% · 90th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.2% · 41st percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 56th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 40 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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