Emergency cake help please!

[womblingalong]

Just about to make old fashioned choc cake from Nigella's Feast, checked recipe and it calls for soured cream, I have none, would natural yoghurt work? This is for a birthday cake for sis for tomorrow, and I haven't got time to pop to the shops?

[combustiblelemon]

Bump for cake help (I hate to think of anything getting in the way of chocolate cake)

[bellavita]

if you have some lemon juice - add this to the yoghurt - will make a perfect sub.

[Overmydeadbody]

You could judt have a look for a chocolate cake that doesn't require soured cream?

[oopsacoconut]

Yes you can use yoghurt but mix in a teaspoon of bicarb first 1 cup yog + 1 tsp bicarb - it makes it slightly sour and fizzy or you could use cup milk + 3tbsp lemon juice + 3 tbsp melted butter.

Not tried the milk one but botbcome from myrecipe subsitiue book.

Hope it works

[workstostaysane]

yoghurt plus lemon juice works for me.

[womblingalong]

OH thanks all, just popped up to put DD to bed, so sorry for not respnding sooner. Loads of ideas here.

That book sounds brilliant oopsacoconut, what is it called?

OMDB - that's a good idea, however, all the recipes in that book call for slightly unusual ingredients, i just don't have knocking around e.g 300g marmalade or nutella or horlicks etc. Have you got a recipe you'd recommend?