Grammy's Kitchen · Pound Cake · Coconut Lime Pound Cake
One of 63 pound cake recipes we measured
2 cooks on www.lecremedelacrumb.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 | 95% | 94% |
| total sugar | 250% | 167% |
| egg | 83% | 83% |
| leavener | 1% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 57% | 34% |
| dairy | 57% | 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 butter (completely softened to room temperature) |
| 300 g | 1 1/2 cups sugar |
| 115 g | 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt or sour cream |
| 200 g | 4 eggs (at room temperature) |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon vanilla |
| zest of 2 limes | |
| juice of 1 lime | |
| 240 g | 2 cups flour |
| 2 g | 1/4 teaspoon salt (if using unsalted butter, increase to 1/2 teaspoon) |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon baking powder |
| 300 g | 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar |
| juice of 1 lime | |
| 2 teaspoons coconut extract | |
| 22 g | 1 1/2 tablespoons heavy cream (or half and half, or other milk) |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.lecremedelacrumb.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.