White Almond Sour Cream Cake
We LOVE this White Almond Sour Cream Cake! It is so moist and delicious with a velvety soft texture and fine crumb.
This cake has been one of our most popular cake recipes from scratch over the years, and is definitely one of my favorites! We have a cake mix version (WASC Cake) as well!
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How to Make White Almond Sour Cream Cake
This delicious scratch White Almond Sour Cream Cake is a creamy and flavorful cake, with a melt-in-your-mouth texture.
This is thanks in part to the Reverse Creaming Method of Mixing, which calls ingredients to be added in a different order than the traditional creaming method. The result is a slightly dense, velvety soft cake (as with our chocolate cake from scratch and orange dreamsicle cake).
You can find the full white almond sour cream cake recipe below, but here is a quick look at our steps!
- First, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 8 x 2 inch pans.
- In a small bowl, combine eggs, vanilla, almond extract, milk, & sour cream. Whisk until blended & set aside.
- Mix the dry ingredients (cake flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt) in the mixer for 30 seconds so the baking powder and salt will be well incorporated into the flour and sugar.
- Slowly add the pieces of butter a few at a time while the mixer is on medium speed. Beat for approximately 1 minute or until the dry ingredients are crumbly and moistened by the butter, giving it the look of coarse sand. Scrape the sides and bottom of bowl.
- Next, slowly add approx. half of the egg mixture with the mixer on very low speed then increasing to medium speed for 1½ minutes. The batter will be thick and fluffy. Scrape bottom and sides of bowl. Add the remaining egg mixture in two pourings, scraping the bowl and beating for 20 seconds after each addition.
- Divide the cake batter between the prepared cake pans.
- Finally, bake the cake layers at 350 degrees F for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pans 10 minutes then turn out. Makes 7 cups batter
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More Cakes with Almond Flavor
We've made several almond cakes over the years! While this White Almond Sour Cream Cake has a light almond flavor, others like our popular Almond Cake recipe have a rich almond flavor.
We also have an a great Almond Cream Cake, Almond Coconut Cake, Lemon Almond Cake, and many more!
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White Almond Sour Cream Cake
Ingredients
- 3 Large eggs, room temperature (If in a hurry, place in a bowl of warm water for 5 minutes.)
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract (8g)
- 1 tsp. almond extract (4g)
- ⅓ c milk (73g)
- 1 cup sour cream (242g)
- 2 ½ c cake flour (285g)
- 1 ½ c granulated sugar (300g)
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder (12g)
- ½ teaspoon salt (3g)
- 1 ½ sticks unsalted butter, slightly softened (170g) unsalted butter, slightly softened (Do not soften in microwave). It shouldn't be overly soft, but soft enough to easily dent when pressed.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Grease and flour two 8 x 2 inch pans.
- This recipe uses the reverse creaming method of mixing- the order of ingredients is a bit different than the traditional method.
- In a small bowl, combine eggs, vanilla extract, almond extract, milk, & sour cream. Whisk until blended & set aside.
- Mix the dry ingredients (cake flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt) in the mixer for 30 seconds so the baking powder and salt will be well incorporated into the flour and sugar.
- Slowly add the pieces of butter a few at a time while the mixer is on medium speed. Beat for approximately 1 minute or until the dry ingredients are crumbly and moistened by the butter, giving it the look of coarse sand. Scrape the sides and bottom of bowl.
- It is important to SLOWLY add approx. ½ of the egg mixture with the mixer on very low speed then increasing to medium speed for 1½ minutes -- the batter will be thick and fluffy. Scrape bottom and sides of bowl. Add the remaining egg mixture in 2 pourings, scraping the bowl and beating for 20 seconds after each addition. It is now ready to pour into pans.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pans 10 minutes then turn out. Makes 7 cups batter
Hi Evelyn, This is the formula for changing all-purpose flour to cake flour .....for each cup of all-purpose flour remove 2 Tablespoons flour and replace those 2 Tablespoons with 2 Tablespoons cornstarch. This recipe has 2 1/2 cups cake flour so you will measure out 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour remove 5 Tablespoons and replace that flour with 5 Tablespoons cornstarch. Hope this helps.
Hi Nat, Yes it can
Melissa ur cakes r awesome. i have a question,how many cakes will i get if i make one batch of this receipe poured in a 6"pan?
Hi Vasanta, this recipe makes 7 cups of batter. Wilton's chart is a good way to estimate the number of cups of batter needed. (They include a column for batter needed per pan for various cake sizes.)
They estimate 2 1/4 cups of batter per 6 inch pan for a two layer cake. So, one batch would give you enough batter for a double layer 4 inch tall cake tier, plus an additional 6" layer that you can freeze for later.
Thanks melissa for a quick response.
In kitchen aid stand mixer which attachment should i use to make this cake.
Hi Vasanta, you will need to use the paddle attachment
Melissa i made this cake ,taste is awesome and its very moist and nice .i have a small question when the cake is in the oven it raised very nicely ,when the time is done i inserted a toothpick and checked it everything is fine so i offed the oven and waited for 15 min to cool down ,after that when i took out of the oven it don't have a raised top it became flat .i didn't get how this happened , did i do anything wrong can u tell me .should i leave in the oven once the time is done or take out immediately.
How strong is the almond flavor? would it be too much to do an almond buttercream instead of vanilla?
Hi Vasanta, When the cake is done we take it out of the oven and let it cool 10 or 15 minutes, then turn it out of the pan. It is best if the cake has only a slight dome, even better if it bakes flat and level. So, yes, take the cake out of the oven when the toothpick comes out clean or with only a few crumbs clinging to it and the cake is beginning to pull away from the sides of the pan.
Hi Gina, I think the cake has a mild almond flavor, so it would be fine to have a mild almond buttercream frosting covering the cake.
hi :)
I want to make this cake for some tiered fondant cakes i make. I was wondering if there was a way to make this recipe into a chocolate one? By adding/substituting cocoa, etc. ? and how
This looks like it could be exactly what I'm looking for! Did you see the strawberry question above? I'd lobe to try this and add strawberry puree but not sure how much to add or what else to adjust. Could you help?