How to Make Pound Cake
Joanne Ozug · thepioneerwoman.com · 2016 · 8 serving(s)
Against 462 pound cake recipes
No leavening, unlike 76% of recipes and more egg than 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No leavening at all, where 76% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).
- More egg than 77% of recipes: 100% 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).
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
Ingredients (7)
- 1 lb. Unsalted Butter, At Room Temperature454 g
- 1 lb. Sugar (2 Cups, Measured)454 g
- 1 lb. Eggs (8 Large Eggs)454 g
- 1/2 tsp. Salt≈ 3 g
- 1 tbsp. Vanilla Paste (or Extract)≈ 13 g
- 1 Orange, Zest Onlyn/a
- 1 lb. Flour (3 1/4 Cups, Measured)454 g
flour 454 gbatter 1830 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.
- Butter100% · 72nd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar100% · 24th percentile · median 120%
- Egg100% · 83rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy0% · 16th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening0% · 12th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.7% · 49th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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