Golden Soured Cream Layers

Name: Golden Soured Cream Layers
Yield: Makes two 23 cm round layers, 5cm high
Ingredients: 280 g sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 140 g soured cream, at room temperature (if some whey drains from the cream, just whisk it back in); 170 g unsalted butter, softened; 390 g plain flour; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon baking powder; 8 medium egg yolks, at room temperature

Preparation info

Makes
two
23 cm round layers, 5cm high

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake!

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

About

Golden butter method cakes are made with egg yolks only and are the richest and most tender of all cakes of this type. Just be careful with the baked layers; they are more fragile than the others, which have more firmness and elasticity due to the presence of egg whites.

Ingredients

390 g plain flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Prepare the batter according to the master recipe for White Butter Cake, whisking the egg yolks and soured cream together in step 3. Mix, bake, cool and store the same way.