I am doing last minute cake for a neighbor's funeral and I thought I had everything...I use the darn good chocolate cake recipe and realized after I started that my sour cream is BAD, so what can I substitute, if anything??? Other ingredients ar already in the KA... please help!

I found this on the internet, but you probably don't have these ingredients on hand, either:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mock-Sour-Cream-I/Detail.aspx

I hope you find an alternative!

Is this s scratch recipe or a box base?

If it is the boxed one, I think you can add additional oil to it to make up for the sour cream (NOT the entire amount though!) If it calls for 1 cup sour cream, I would try 1/3 cup oil.

If it is scratch, I don't know what to tell you.

I don't know what the recipe you have is, but I use both sour cream and instant pudding in my doctored cake mix cakes. If you have the pudding, I'd bet that'd help w/ moisture. Sorry I can't be of more help; Hope all turns out ok.

Thanks everyone! I have no idea what will happen, but I used a tad more oil and some mayo (per some other subtitution sites)...the batter tasted good, we'll see about the end results...thanks for all of your quick replies!

Sorry I know that is a little bit late but for next time use 1 cup os whole milk with 2 Tbsp of lemon

Yogurt will work too if you have any.

I was going to suggest mayo or yogurt too - I hope it turns out delicious!

I'm sort of in the same predicament, no sour cream. If I use mayo, what is the proportion that equals 1 cup sour cream. Is it equal amounts???


TIA

I've used yogurt (vanilla flavored, or plain would work) before, like TexasSugar suggested, and it worked great.