Hello All!
I have a sour cream vanilla cake recipe that I have been using for years. It has always been a problematic recipe, and I have made slight adjustments over the years that have helped it come out better, but it tastes SO GOOD that I have been willing to work with it.
The recipe was handed to me by a family friend and is called "Old Fashioned Pound Cake", to be made in a ten inch mold. I make it as a layer cake and it is usually dense (in a good way) and very moist.
Lately though, just the past few months, this recipe is driving me crazy. The top half of the cake bakes up ok, but the bottom half is a dense rubbery mess. I changed baking soda, baking powder, checked measurements, checked oven temperature. Nothing helps. All my other recipes turn out fine using the same ingredients (minus sour cream) but this recipe seems to just not work anymore.
Recipe:
1 C unsalted butter
2C sugar
3 large eggs, beaten
2 C unbleached flour
1 T baking powder
1 t baking soda
.5 t salt
2 C sour cream
1 T vanilla
Below you can find a really gross looking photo of my sink, and of a slice of the dense part of the cake. It's like a hockey puck!
IF anyone has any insight I would be so grateful! Or if anyone has a sour cream cake recipe they love, I'll take that too. I'm at wits end!
Thank you thank you!
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