Hi Andrea – Buttermilk is a wet ingredient, are you perhaps referring to buttermilk powder that you may have on hand? If you are, then mix up the buttermilk powder with the water as directed on the buttermilk powder package first, and then use 2 1/4 cup liquid buttermilk as directed in the recipe. Or just buy liquid buttermilk and use that.

Too bad it didn’t come out perfectly Nora, but I know it tasted amazing. You only hang a cake cooked in a tube pan, if it’s very light, like a sponge cake or an angel food cake. A hot, heavy cake like the Brick Street Cake or a pound cake (I have a number of cake recipes here baked in a tube pan) would slide right down, because of how heavy the cake is. The purpose of hanging a lighter cake is so it doesn’t fall/settle as it’s cooling. Thank you for dropping by and baking this cake, I bake one every few months at our house. have a wonderful summer!

Why do you have to have a convection oven for this chocolate cake because i don’t have a convection oven and really really want to try this cake!! There HAS TO BE A WAY TO BAKE THIS IN A REGULAR OVEN!!