wow. Thanks. I'll read it thoroughly tomorrow.
I was reading in Heavenly Cakes (I think) or Cake Bible that Mayo is one of those odd ingredients for cakes that works. After all mayo is just emulsified egg yolks, vinegar and oil.
I would just be careful of which mayo you use. Some of them have mustard in that also as I found when I went ingredient hunting last week. I think I'll stick to good old Hellman's when I do try it. Although it does have soybean oil and I am not a fan of using that. We get way too much soy in our food chain as is with me purposely putting it into a cake. I did find a Canola oil may in the organic section of my grocer (Wegmans, CakeandDazzle). But at $5.00 for a pint it was pricey. Still I'm leaning towards trying this or just making my own mayo.
OMG! You have Wegmans! lol Thats my place! I use wegmans brand mayo nice and cheap and works perfect! It does have soybean oil in it though...
Thanks for posting that recipe. I might give that one a try. I had seen that blog before and I've heard a lot of good things about that book. Have you tried many recipes from the Sky High book? I might pick it up if it's worth buying. Does that recipe you posted use the reverse creaming method? It looks like it to me with the creaming of the dry ingredients with the butter and the buttermilk. That is another method I wanted to try in my scratch recipes.
C&D, would you share your white recipe? Do you just replace the extracts to make it lemon?
My recipe
1 cup milk
6 egg whites
1/2 TBLS Vanilla
1/2 TBLS Almond
1/3 cup mayo
Mix above all in 1 bowl, should sit to get alittle warmer, but doesnt have to
2 1/4 flour
1 3/4 sugar
1 TBLS + 1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Mix together (i do it in my kitchenaid with the wisk attachment)
add 1 stick softened unsalted butter (i do room temp) whisk and scrap til it looks like sand
Pour in wet.
And yes just replace the extracts with either the lemon oil, or i do 2 lemons' juice & 1 lemons zest
Thanks for all the info. It didn't occur to me to use oil or mayo in place of some of the butter. I might do a few test runs to see how it goes. I am definitely reading that thread when I get home from work today.
Oh, happy Valentine's Day ya'll!
AC
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