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Scratch WASC

Angfastic
By: Angfastic
Posted 10/31/11 • Last updated 06/13/11 • 715 views • 10 comments

Posted by Angfastic

This is a scratch recipe to which I added sour cream to create my WASC. I tried the recipe once before without sour cream and it was dry so this time I added sour cream and did the reverse cream method. The cake and first 12 cupcakes were a little dense but very tasty. The folks at the party loved it and my friend asked how it was different from my usual. I had a little batter left over so I made one cupcake after I pulled out the first batch. This one was lighter and fluffier. I think maybe because I took it out a little sooner than the first batch. If not maybe because the batter set for awhile.

Ingredients

  • 2 sticks unsalted butter 2 cups sugar 3 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour 4 eggs 1 cup milk (whole or low fat) 1 cup (8oz) sour cream 3 tsps baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 tsp almond extract

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 F. Butter and lightly flour 3 - 9 inch pans. Sift flour and then lightly sppon 3 cups into a measuring cup. Put all dry ingredients in bowl and mix for about 1 minute. Add butter a little bit of the milk and mix until mix thoroughly. Add remaining liquid ingredients and mix for several minutes. Pour into pans and bake for 20-25 minutes or until tester inserted into cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pans and finish cooling on racks.

Comments (10)

justme123 11/1/11 at 4:14am
please anyone, where can i get the gumpaste baby mould in Uk. I am trying to make a baby shower cake for a present and give myself a bit of time to experiment. thanks.
Angfastic 11/1/11 at 6:58am
WASC stands for white almond sour cream.
aliwali 11/1/11 at 7:17am
is this some special brand of flour. can we use any brand?
kakeladi 11/1/11 at 2:44pm
Swans Down is a brand of cake flour. I would expect most any brand would work as long as it is cake flour and not all purpose.
Angfastic 11/1/11 at 3:35pm
I'm sure any type of cake flour will work.
madcobbler 11/16/11 at 3:52pm
I have used both Swansdown and Softasilk cake flour with equally good results.
Krista512 2/4/12 at 3:35pm
How would this cake do adding a box of pudding???? & could I change it to chocolate, or strawberry or another flavor?
Angfastic 2/11/12 at 9:13pm
I've never tried adding pudding. There is an excellent chocolate cake recipe on the swans down flour box. I'll find it and post it. I haven't tried any other flavors, but I was thinking of trying to make it strawberry. I'll probably do this Monday for valentine's day. I'll let you know how it goes.
dee-liciousme 2/28/12 at 5:50am
The cake flour is bleached or unbleached?
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