Perfect Pound Cake
theviewfromgreatisland.com · 2020 · 16 servings
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Close to the middle of 462 pound cake recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 102% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 87% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter (at room temperature. (3 sticks, or 12 ounces))≈ 341 g
- 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar ((12.5 ounces))≈ 350 g
- 6 large eggs (at room temperature (12.5 ounces, weighed in their shell))≈ 300 g
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1/4 tsp salt≈ 1.5 g
- 1/2 cup cultured buttermilk (room temperature, or at least not cold)≈ 122 g
- 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour ((12.5 ounces))≈ 344 g
flour 344 gbatter 1475 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.
- Butter99% · 61st percentile · median 91%
- Sugar102% · 32nd percentile · median 120%
- Egg87% · 66th percentile · median 80%
- Dairy36% · 45th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.3% · 45th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.4% · 40th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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