Desserts

Sour Cream Cake

This simple cake is made with sour creme and a touch of cheese and bakes so well, perfect with tea or coffee made for friends and family.  To the eggs yolks, add in unsalted butter, sugar can be fine crystals then beat for 5 minutes on high speed using a stand mixer. In another bowl, you will beat ten egg whites until light and fluffy and they attain a stiff peak.

Once the mixture is well mixed and turns creamy, add in sour cream, grated parmesan cheese you can use homemade or store-bought cheese then also add a pinch of salt and if the butter here was salted then you do not need to add salt. Also, put baking powder and vanilla essence and then beat for about a minute on average speed to mix it well then set it aside. For the dry ingredients,  sift in your wheat flour and stir it to just mix using a wire whisk.

This recipe doesn’t need any liquid, once mixed sift in another cup of wheat flour and now just mix it. Mix until the batter is homogeneous before starting to add in the grated cheese, once you have added the grated cheese, mix it into the batter well then start folding the egg whites that you made earlier ion to the batter. Note that the egg whites are what will give the cake the fluffiness so make sure you carefully fold the egg whites into the batter and not beat it in. Once the egg whites are well-mixed into the batter, stop mixing and get an 8 inches pan that is buttered and lightly dusted with flour then pour the batter in.

Tap the pan pon the counter to remove any large air bubbles trapped in the batter then bake the cake into a 180 degrees Celcius oven for 55 minutes or until the cake is golden brown in color and a toothpick or skewer inserted at the center come s out clean. Let the cake cool before unmoulding it then turn it to a serving plate and slice it.  This cake will be your new favorite, the introduction of cheese to this cake will change everything about any cake you have ever baked. Try this today and enjoy it.

Ingredients;

  • 100 grams of unsalted butter or margarine
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 3 egg whites
  • 1 and ½ cup (276 grams ) of sugar
  • ½ box (100 grams) of sour cream
  • ¼ cup (25 grams) of grated Parmesan cheese
  • 1 pinch of salt (and if the butter is salted, remove the salt from the recipe)
  • 1 tablespoon(14 grams) of baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon(2 grams ) of vanilla essence
  • 1 and ½ cup (206 grams) of wheat flour

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