Chocolate Cake, I Just Love This One

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 1/2 cups loosely packed brown sugar
• 2 1/4 cups sifted flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 3 eggs
• 3 unsweetened chocolate squares (80g, or 85% or higher)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup boiling water, and
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 lb butter (soft)
• 2 lbs icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon milk (as needed)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 melt chocolate in microwave (30 seconds at a time) or in a double boiler.
• 3 grease two 9-inch cake pans.
• 4 sift together flour, baking soda, and salt.
• 5 in a separate larger bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter until light.
• 6 add sugar and continue beating.
• 7 add eggs one at a time, scraping bowl well after each addition.
• 8 beat on high speed for 5 minutes.
• 9 add vanilla and chocolate.
• 10 stir in sifted dry ingredients alternately with sour cream (starting and ending with flour, i.e. add some flour, then some sour cream, then more flour -- etc).
• 11 stir in boiling water.
• 12 pour into pans.
• 13 bake for 35 minutes (start testing for doneness after about 27 minutes; if there are a few moist crumbs on the tester, it's ok to take it out).
• 14 cool in pans for 5 to 10 minutes. remove to a rack and let cool completely before icing.
• 15 to make the frosting: mix all the frosting ingredients together in mixer. once it is well mixed, frost the cake generously.
• 16 enjoy :-d.