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Sour Cream Filling for Cake

A whipped sour cream, chopped nuts, and powdered sugar mixture used as a filling between cake layers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Sour Cream Filling for Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Whip the sour cream until fluffy.

  2. Chop the nuts finely.

Assemble and ice

  1. In a bowl, combine the whipped sour cream, chopped nuts, and powdered sugar.

  2. Spread the mixture between layers of white cake.

  3. Ice the cake with white icing.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Cream + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Nuts + sugartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,228 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sour cream
Adds moisture and a tangy richness, and whipping it lightens its body so it spreads.
Chopped nuts
Add texture and a crunchy contrast to the soft cream filling.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the filling and dissolves smoothly into the cream for a fine texture.

The step that matters

Whip the sour cream until fluffy. Whipping adds air and body, but overbeating sour cream can thicken it too far and make it grainy or buttery. Stop once it is fluffy so the filling stays smooth and spreadable between the cake layers.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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