I had some left over sour cream and had a new recipe

The name "sour cream cake" does not sound that appealing I'm sure, but I was so happy with the result! It was such a lovely, light and flavourful cake, I would really recommend. I used the recipe from Sweetest Menu, I didn't do any frosting though.

a slice of the sour cream cake

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Ingredients

• 210 grams plain flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 150 grams caster sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 120 millilitres sunflower oil (any vegetable oil)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 1 large egg
• 240 millilitres sour cream

The steps

In a large bowl, I sifted the flour, baking powder, and added the sugar and salt, in the original recipe it details doing the liquids in a different bowl but I didn't want to. Instead I beat the egg in a separate bowl and added the oil, vanilla and egg mixture to the large bowl which had the dry ingredients.

After this, I added in the sour cream and stirred it. Just like the recipe said, it was a thicker mixture than I was used to!

adding the sour cream

mixing and thick

After this step, it was time to pour it into the tin. I used an 7 to 8 inch cake tin I had, as I usually only use rectangle tins! This felt more special and professional.

pouring it in

I had a little bit of an issue as the baking paper I had used to line the tin lifted and some of the mixture went under it! It turned out fine with the paper in the end.

I baked the cake for about 30 minutes, at 160 degrees Celsius, it had a lovely golden top.

golden!

I was really happy with how it came out, it reminded me of those fluffy Japanese cakes, and it had a great flavour from the sour cream, even without any frosting.

done!

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