Grammy's Kitchen · Pound Cake · Blood Orange Pound Cake
One of 63 pound cake recipes we measured
from preppykitchen.com
27 cooks on preppykitchen.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 63.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 63% | 94% |
| total sugar | 163% | 167% |
| egg | 69% | 83% |
| leavener | 3% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 33% | 34% |
| dairy | 32% | 57% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 227 g | 1 cup unsalted butter (softened) |
| 3/4 cup blood orange juice | |
| 300 g | 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar |
| 250 g | 5 large eggs |
| 360 g | 3 cups flour |
| 12 g | 1 tablespoon baking powder |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 3/4 cup orange juice | |
| Zest of 1 blood orange | |
| 115 g | 1/2 cup sour cream |
| 5 g | 1 tsp orange blossom water (optional) |
| 287 g | 287 grams confectioners' sugar |
| Juice from 1 blood orange. |
Method: 15 steps, published by preppykitchen.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Always start with your sugar in your bowl and start adding a small amount of your liquid. Stir and gauge consistency. Keep adding more liquid in very SMALL increments, stirring in between, and stop when you get to what you consider the perfect consistency. I o” — a cook, 5.0★
“Gorgeous cake.. Have made it twice now.. So moist and delicious. Not too sweet. Give it a try.. You won't regret it” — a cook, 5.0★