Favorite Sour Cream Cakes
Today, we're featuring our favorite sour cream cakes! Many of our go-to recipes contain sour cream, including pound cakes, fruity layer cakes, chocolate cakes, and more!
How is Sour Cream helpful in Cake Recipes?
Sour cream adds richness to cakes and improves the texture. This can be attributed no only to its high fat content, but also the boost of acidity which softens the strands of gluten in the cake batter. This results in a softer, more tender crumb.
As an added bonus, the addition of sour cream doesn't thin the cake batter, which is why we often use it in cakes with "add-ins" like blueberries, pecans, chocolate chips and more. Some examples are our Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake, Pineapple Pound Cake, and Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake.
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Sour Cream Cakes
Sharing a collection of our favorite Sour Cream Cakes! We love sour cream as an ingredient because it brings moisture, richness, and a wonderful texture to cakes and cupcakes. We use it in many of our scratch cakes as well as cake mix recipes!
Lemon Blueberry Cake from Scratch
The flavor combination of tangy lemon balanced with sweet blueberries is one of our favorites. You will love this soft, moist cake recipe.
Pineapple Pound Cake
If you are a fan of cakes with fruit or pineapple desserts, you will love this recipe. Crushed pineapple is folded into the rich cake batter, ensuring bits of pineapple in every slice.
Chocolate Sour Cream Cake- Scratch Recipe
This rich chocolate cake has a wonderfully moist texture and deep chocolate flavor that is sure to bring rave reviews!
Strawberry Sour Cream Cake
This flavorful strawberry sour cream cake with white chocolate frosting is SO good. It is super moist and the combination of cake and frosting flavors is perfect!
Easy Boston Cream Pie Recipe
In this easy version of Boston Cream Pie, vanilla cake layers are filled with an easy cream filling, and topped with rich ganache!
Lemon Sour Cream Cake
If you like lemon desserts, you'll love this decadent lemon sour cream cake!
Cherry Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
This flavorful strawberry sour cream cake with white chocolate frosting is SO good. It is super moist and the combination of cake and frosting flavors is perfect!
Butter Pecan Cupcakes (Cake Mix)
These easy Butter Pecan Cupcakes are soft, moist, and flavored with brown sugar and buttered pecans. We've topped them with our favorite cream cheese frosting. Keep this recipe in mind for your next special occasion!
Chocolate Bundt Cake
This moist chocolate bundt cake is so rich and delicious! We topped it with a decadent ganache and decorated with chocolate frosting.
Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake
This decadent Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake has a moist, fine crumb and wonderful flavor!
Red Velvet Cake
You don't have to wait for the holidays to enjoy this Red Velvet Cake, its a great option year-round! This cake is moist, tender, and has a light and delicious cocoa flavor.
Blueberry Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
This moist cake is bursting with blueberry flavor and tastes fantastic with lemon cream cheese frosting!
Snickerdoodle Bundt Cake
This moist Snickerdoodle Bundt Cake is a delicious vanilla bundt cake with a ribbon of cinnamon and brown sugar in every slice.
Italian Cream Cupcakes (Cake Mix)
Italian cream cake is a longtime favorite of ours, and we now have a cake mix version! You will love the coconut and pecan flavor in these moist and tender cupcakes.
Lemon Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This moist and tender Lemon Cake from Cake mix is easy to make and is guaranteed to please the lemon lovers in your life!
Easy Brownie Cake
Oh how we love brownies! This brownie layer cake has all of the wonderful flavor of a brownie, but with a texture and fluffiness of cake! Nobody would guess that it starts with a box of brownie mix!
Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting
This ultra moist toffee pecan caramel cake is always a crowd favorite! You can never go wrong with this delicious combination of flavors!
Raspberry Layer Cake
This moist and tender cake has amazing raspberry flavor! It is always a favorite in spring and summer months! It is filled and frosting with homemade raspberry filling and cream cheese frosting.
Chocolate Mousse Cake (Cake Mix)
Rich chocolate cake layers are filled with a luscious, simple chocolate mousse filling (that starts with instant pudding)! This doctored cake mix recipe is sure to please the chocolate lovers in your life!
Sour Cream Pound Cake
This ultra moist sour cream pound cake couldn't be easier to make, and tastes fantastic on its own or topped with berries and cream!
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Thanks Teri! xoxo
Can I add sour cream to any cake recipe? If so, how much?
Thank you. Love this site! Yvonne
Hi Yvonne- So glad that you are enjoying the site! There's not really an easy rule of thumb for how to add sour cream to an existing recipe. There may be some trial and error involved ;0) - Usually our sour cream cakes contain less liquid than for instance our buttermilk cakes, etc. I would just test out some of ours and find favorites that way!
Most of our favorite cakes have either sour cream, buttermilk, or cream cheese for a little added richness & moisture, plus a slight boost of acidity (which helps the texture of the cake).