Chocolate Sour Cream Cake

This is a very dense, moist cake and almost fudge-like. My mom found this recipe in the newspaper almost 50 years ago. It has been our family “Birthday Cake” since then.

Difficulty: Easy

Servings: 15-20

Prep Time: 20 minutes   Cook Time: 1 hr. 15 min.  

Ingredients

1 c. boiling water
2 squares unsweetened baking chocolate
1/2 c. soft butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 3/4 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 3/4 c +2 Tbsp. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c sour cream

Directions

Combine and let cool:  boiling water and *unsweetened chocolate

Cream together:  soft butter, vanilla, brown sugar and eggs

In a separate bowl combine:  flour, baking soda and salt

Combine the cooled chocolate mixture with sour cream

Add in the creamed ingredients and the flour mixture

Mix well

Pour into a greased loaf pan, lined with waxed paper

Bake at *325 for 1 hour and 15 minutes

Let cool for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire wrack and remove the waxed paper

Frost with chocolate butter cream frosting

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* I sometimes make the equivalent of this with Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate powder + a little Crisco or lard.

Categories: Cakes, Cheese, Dairy, Desserts, Old-Fashioned, Other Desserts

Submitted by: on May 4, 2010