Grammy's Kitchen · Pound Cake · Lemon Pound Cake
One of 63 pound cake recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
18 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 4.3★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 63.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 126% | 94% |
| total sugar | 222% | 167% |
| egg | 111% | 83% |
| leavener | 2% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 34% | 34% |
| dairy | 34% | 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 salted butter (room temperature, plus more for greasing, $1.98) |
| 180 g | 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour* (plus more for dusting, $0.25*) |
| 2 g | 1/2 tsp baking powder ($0.03) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp baking soda ($0.01) |
| 2 g | 1/4 tsp salt ($0.01) |
| 200 g | 1 cup granulated sugar ($0.96) |
| 200 g | 4 large eggs, beaten ($0.68) |
| 61 g | 1/4 cup buttermilk ($0.13**) |
| 3 lemons (juiced and zested, divided, $1.47***) | |
| 200 g | 1 cup powdered sugar* ($0.30) |
Method: 8 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I'm a pretty experienced baker and have no issue with much more finicky recipes, but this one came out with an awful texture and very little flavor. If I adjusted this, I'd suggest softening the butter just past room temp (such as under a warm glass) and a” — a cook, 2.0★
“Thought whole point of budgetbytes is cooking/baking on a BUDGET. Eggs, butter, powdered sugar is extremely pricey and hardly economical. Ever since Beth 'stepped away' from BB these so called contributors are just posting random recipes that ignores her o” — a cook, 1.0★