What is a safe substitute for sour cream in making chocolate cake?!
Answers: The sour cream is used not only for texture, but for the tang it has. It's used in a lot of chocolate cake recipes. Sour milk can be a replacement, which is also a buttermilk replacement in baking recipes - milk with vinegar, or lemon juice. To make 1 cup use 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar with enough milk to make 1 cup. Otherwise sour cream and plain yogurt are interchangeable in a recipe. So how ever much sour cream, use that same amount of plain yogurt. To do the sour milk trick, or even buttermilk, you'll be effecting the texture and crumb of the cake, and will also need to cut out some liquid from the recipe. HTH.
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cinoman
It depends on the recipe. You could probably sub yogurt if you need a dairy product. If you need moisture, you could do mashed bananas, applesauce, or prunes.
I have also heard of mayonnaise, which makes a lot of sense actually. Mayo is eggs and oil, which are typical cake ingredients.
Plain yogurt or cool whip would work fine :D
-Good Luck!
mayo
remember NOT miracle whip
I would substitute the yogurt, even flavored would be good. It's similar in texture so it should affect the final product. Another substitute that would be good is buttermilk, it has the sour note of the sour cream and it's thicker than regular milk. Believe it or not, mayonnaise is another one. My mom has been making a chocolate mayonnaise cake for years and everyone always raves that it's the best they've ever tasted. If you decide mayonnaise, add a tablespoon of white vinegar to the batter, it's all about chemistry when you are baking.
Mayo or yogurt or even buttermilk.
Yogurt
Miracle Whip or mayonnaise.
mayo
Milk mixed with vinegar.
1 cup milk milk + 1 tablespoon vinegar is the ratio.
OR
Buttermilk
OR
yoghurt
OR
thickened cream
And if you can't be bothered, then plain ol' milk should do the trick!