Grammy's Kitchen · Pound Cake · Sour Cream Pound Cake
One of 63 pound cake recipes we measured
from sugarspunrun.com
44 cooks on sugarspunrun.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 | 68% | 94% |
| total sugar | 167% | 167% |
| egg | 91% | 83% |
| leavener | 1% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 74% | 34% |
| dairy | 74% | 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 ) |
| 600 g | 3 cups granulated sugar |
| 300 g | 6 large eggs (whites and yolks separated (room temperature preferred)) |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 360 g | 3 cups all-purpose flour |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon baking soda |
| 4 g | 3/4 teaspoon table salt |
| 227 g | 8 oz sour cream |
Method: 8 steps, published by sugarspunrun.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“My daughter came to visit from Georgia, but one of her demands :0 is that I make my sour cream pound cake for while she was visiting and one to take home. I have been using a particular recipe for many years, but decided to change it up! That's when I found ” — a cook, 5.0★
“This is an excellent recipe! I'm making it right now for the second time. Even my husband who isn't a fan of pound cake enjoys it. It's much less dense than the traditional traditional sour cream pound cake. But every bit as delicious!” — a cook, 5.0★