Dorie Greenspan's Sour Cream Swirl Picnic Cakelettes

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A swirled sour pick cake, baked successful a useful size similar this one, is conscionable the summons for a picnic.

You’ll request mini loaf pans that measurement 5 3/4 by 3 1/4 inches oregon a spot smaller; disposable ones are good to usage here.

Cooled and past wrapped successful plastic, the cakes volition support astatine country somesthesia for up to 3 days. They tin beryllium frozen for up to 2 months.

From cookbook writer Dorie Greenspan. An earlier mentation of this look misstated the fig of sticks of food needed. It is 2, not 1.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 16 (makes 4 mini loaves)

For the swirl

1/2 cupful (3 ounces) mini cocoa chips (or chopped chocolate)
1/2 cupful (about 2 1/4 ounces) chopped nuts, specified arsenic walnuts, pecans oregon almonds
1/3 cupful (2 3/4 ounces) granulated sugar
1/4 cupful (about 1 1/3 ounces) raisins oregon tiny bits of different dried effect (make definite the effect is moist and plump)
1/4 spoon crushed cinnamon
Pinch good oversea salt

For the cakes

2 cups (8 3/4 ounces) flour
1 spoon baking powder
1/4 spoon crushed cinnamon
1/4 spoon crushed cardamom (may substitute that overmuch much crushed cinnamon)
16 tablespoons (8 ounces; 2 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
1 cupful (8 1/4 ounces) granulated sugar
2/3 cupful packed airy brownish sweetener (3 3/4 ounces)
1/2 spoon good oversea salt
2 ample eggs, astatine country temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons axenic vanilla extract
1 cupful sour pick (remove from the fridge 20 minutes earlier using)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (using pecans and dried cherries)

Calories
360
Fat
19 g
Saturated Fat
10 g
Carbohydrates
44 g
Sodium
105 mg
Cholesterol
65 mg
Protein
4 g
Sugar
31 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Dorie Greenspan. An earlier mentation of this look misstated the fig of sticks of food needed. It is 2, not 1.

Tested by Kara Elder.

Published July 11, 2016

Updated March 15, 2026