Learn the top 20 cake recipes that Southern Living readers believe are the best of all time, from Hummingbird Cake to Million ...

Ina Garten knows how to make a quick but delicious breakfast. We love her cacio e pepe scrambled eggs, and her easy breakfast ...

This Sour Cream Lemon Pound Cake is rich and velvety with a bright lemon zing and incredibly moist texture thanks to sour cream in the batter. It bakes up tall with a crackly top and dense yet ...

Sour cream gives baker Ruby Tandoh's vanilla-scented cake its moist, tender crumb, while a touch of orange zest in the fudgy frosting adds a little fragrant sophistication.

I was set on rhubarb cake. I’d been thinking about a recipe for rhubarb sour cream cake similar to the “ rhubarb cakies ” I made four years ago. I was eager to get chopping and baking.

Here’s my verdict The cake, meltingly tender and surprisingly light, was great (sour cream helps to achieve a light, fluffy crumb, and it did its job well here).

Whipped cream and loads of berries? That’s another argument for keeping an excellent cake recipe close: With the base out of the way, you can get really creative with your extras.

According to Bobbie Lloyd, CEO and chief baking officer at Magnolia Bakery, “Vanilla flavored cakes are referred to as white cake or yellow cake. The color is due to the eggs used in the recipe.

She notes that Magnolia Bakery uses egg whites in their classic vanilla cake, adding butter, sour cream and vanilla extract to achieve a “delicious buttery vanilla flavor.” ...