I know this should go in the recipe section BUT. With the recent thread lately I thought I would put it here. Now for the caveats Don't try it if your not going to weigh out the ingred. I don't know if it will come out. If your arteries start to harden don't blame me, IT'S CAKE . This will fill two 9" round weighed out at 2#s each. If you use all cake, or all pastry flour it will come out as soft as a baby's bottom BUT. I think it's to soft that's why I went with 1/2 AP. With the softer flour, and minimal egg whites the structure is barely there with all pastry flour. Sift flour, and BP together. you can add ANY sort of flavoring to this "base" you like. I add it in before the flour, and s. cream.

12 oz butter
13 oz sugar
3 oz honey
7.5 oz egg YOLKS
3 oz egg WHITES
.6 oz baking powder
7.5 oz half & half
7.5 oz sour cream
7.5 oz AP flour
7.5 oz pastry flour.

Cream butter, sugar, and honey till white, and fluffy.

add yolks, and whites slowly scrap bowl often. Make sure they are incorporated well. This will look like a curdled mess, and more than likely at this point you will curse at me for ruining all your ingreds.

I measure the S. cream, and 1/2 & 1/2 in the same bowl.
Alternate between the S. cream & flour adding it in slowly a lil at at time. I usually do this three times. With the flour being last. Your trying to squeeze as much moisture into the flour as possible. The honey also helps with this. Pour into the pans.

Good luck, Happy baking,

Mike

So fearless of you to brave in advance all our 'responses' in the curdling stage.

Thanks for the new formula!

it looks good

Thank You

Mike

I'm going ot have to try this, Mike. It sounds tasty. Thank you for sharing it!

And that reminds me, I need new batteries for my scale.

I'll do it under my breath.

I'll be sure to post when I do try it.

Thanks Mike -- I have a similar cake recipe -- blending AP and Cake flour. And I do the sour cream too -- but I love the honey in there! Honey (as you know) holds moisture -- so this is a GREAT recipe, I can tell.

I'm trying it soon!