Blood Orange Pound Cake
theviewfromgreatisland.com · 2026 · 10 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less egg than 90% of recipes and more salt than 82%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 90% of recipes: 53% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More salt than 82% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 75% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
Ingredients (15)
- 1 1/2 cups flour≈ 188 g
- 1/4 tsp baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 1/2 tsp baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 1/2 tsp salt≈ 3 g
- 1 cup white sugar≈ 200 g
- zest of 1 orange (peeled with a vegetable peeler (orange part, not the bitter white pith))n/a
- 1/2 cup butter (at room temperature)≈ 114 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 1/8 cup blood orange juice≈ 30 g
- 3/8 cup buttermilk≈ 92 g
- 2 Tbsp neutral vegetable oil≈ 27 g
- 1/2 tsp orange extract (optional)≈ 2.1 g
- 1/2 tsp vanilla paste (or extract)≈ 2.1 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar≈ 200 g
- 2 Tbsp blood orange juice, or more to thin≈ 30 g
flour 188 gbatter 760 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.
- Butter75% · 26th percentile · median 91%
- Sugar107% · 39th percentile · median 120%
- Egg53% · 7th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy49% · 52nd percentile · median 46%
- Leavening2% · 58th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.6% · 86th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 50 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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