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Improving a Purchased Cake Mix
Author: Ten
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Use this if you want to make your cakes a little more firm and moist. It works perfectly for me every time - simply lower the baking temp from 350 to about 325 and extend the baking time a bit. This will also increase your batter amount slightly - so it's great if normal cake mixes just don't cut it in your slightly-oversized pan! This is a trick I learned from an instructor while taking some Wilton cake decorating classes. I used this over the weekend to make a pumpkin cake (in a pumpkin shaped pan) but I added some pumpkin pie spice mix to it (about two tablespoons) and some cream cheese frosting. It was awesome.
Ingredients
  • Flour
  • Sugar
  • Sour Cream
Preparation
No prior preparation is required.
Instructions
  1. To a normal cake mix, add:
  2. (1) cup flour
  3. (1) cup sugar
  4. (1) cup of sour cream.

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Old 11-23-2007, 01:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I would be one happy camper if all the sour cream in the world simply vanished
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Can it take the bleu cheese with it too?
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You can just give all the bleu cheese to the Khamon. He'll make sure none of it ever gets away. yummy
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Old 11-23-2007, 02:30 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Oh, you people are too picky. You don't TASTE the sour cream; it fluffs up the cake and gives it a great texture.
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a quick and dirty trick is to substitute full cream milk for any water in the recipe.
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Old 11-23-2007, 02:42 PM   #7 (permalink)
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a quick and dirty trick is to substitute full cream milk for any water in the recipe.
Yes, but that also adds a lot of unnecessary fat and calories. It's more of a "pick your poison" deal I suppose
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i LOOOOVE cheese but HATE blue cheese.

is that a sin?
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i LOOOOVE cheese but HATE blue cheese.

is that a sin?
No.

It leaves more bleu cheese for me.
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Bleu cheese is yummy, but it's definitely an acquired taste.

And Tenshi is right about the sour cream, that's an old standby of my mom's.
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1 cup of whole milk
150 calories

1 cup of sour cream
225 calories
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Yes, but that also adds a lot of unnecessary fat and calories. It's more of a "pick your poison" deal I suppose
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ive heard that too...some people put sour cream in pound cake mix to make it better
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1 cup of whole milk
150 calories

1 cup of sour cream
225 calories
225 calories of pure delicious though.
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its why i stay away from vegetables...unles they come dipped in batter or ranch
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1 cup of whole milk
150 calories

1 cup of sour cream
225 calories
*sighs* Then pick LOW FAT sour cream. Can you get low fat cream? No, that's called milk.
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Not worth arguing! Sour cream, cream, milk all good stuff!!! Bring on the dairy fat!
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Not worth arguing! Sour cream, cream, milk all good stuff!!! Bring on the dairy fat!
I hate not being able to find REAL YOGURT instead of this lame 2% stuff.

Another tip, though -- plain yogurt can substitute for sour cream in some recipes.
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