Grammy's Kitchen · Pound Cake · Orange Poppy Seed Pound Cake
One of 63 pound cake recipes we measured
from cookieandkate.com
It ranks #3 of 63 for richness among the pound cake recipes we compared. 30 cooks on cookieandkate.com rate it 4.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 63.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 61% | 94% |
| total sugar | 111% | 167% |
| egg | 83% | 83% |
| leavener | 4% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 102% | 34% |
| dairy | 102% | 57% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 180 g | 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour or white whole wheat flour or regular whole wheat flour |
| 1/3 cup poppy seeds | |
| 8 g | 2 teaspoons baking powder |
| 2 g | 1/4 teaspoon fine salt |
| 1 medium organic orange, to yield about 2 teaspoons zest and 1/4 cup juice | |
| 200 g | 1 cup sugar |
| 184 g | 3/4 cup plain whole-milk yogurt |
| 150 g | 3 large eggs |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract |
| 109 g | 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil |
Method: 7 steps, published by cookieandkate.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“The cake has just come out of the oven and smells delicious! I cooked for 40 minutes and the top edges are dark brown and it’s cooked through. Definitely check it way before the 50-55 min mark. What was the 1/2 cup olive oil at the end of the ingredients list” — a cook, 5.0★
“I saved this recipe along time ago, but just now tried it. I didn’t have oranges, but I had orange juice and only had a little bit of soy yogurt. So I used a half a cup of oatmeal and a quarter cup of orange juice and about 3 tablespoons of yogurt. Still c” — a cook, 5.0★