Name: World's Best Chocolate Sour Cream Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 1 2layer cake
Ingredients: 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate; 2 cups sugar; 1 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour; 3/4 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 cup hot strong brewed coffee (or 5 tsp instant coffee dissolved in one cup hot water); 1/2 cup sour cream, at room temperature; 1/2 cup vegetable oil; 2 large eggs

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Recipe by Lisa Lynn

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This recipe comes from "Rosie's All-Butter, Fresh Cream, Sugar-Packed, No-Holds-Barred Baking Book" and is perfect in every way. It has been THE chocolate cake recipe in our house for better than a decade.

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ingredients

4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
2 cups sugar
1 ¹⁄₂ cups sifted all-purpose flour
³⁄₄ teaspoon baking soda
¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt
1 cup hot strong brewed coffee (or 5 tsp instant coffee dissolved in one cup hot water)
¹⁄₂ cup sour cream, at room temperature
¹⁄₂ cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs

directions

Preheat oven to 345 degrees.
Lightly grease 2 8" layer cake pans Melt the chocolate- set aside Sift sugar, flour, baking soda and salt togather into a large mixing bowl In a separate bowl, blend the hot coffee, sour cream, and vegetable oil with a whisk With the mixer on low speed, add the coffee mixture in a stream to the dry ingredients and mix until blended.
Add the eggs one at a time and beat just until smooth Add the chocolate and mix until until the batter in a uniform color.
Divide the batter evenly and pour into prepared pans Bake until the cake springs back to the touch.
Do not wait for a crust to form.
35-38 minutes.
Cool, frost, enjoy!

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"This recipe comes from "Rosie's All-Butter, Fresh Cream, Sugar-Packed, No-Holds-Barred Baking Book" and is perfect in every way. It has been THE chocolate cake recipe in our house for better than a decade."

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review by Marleys Mom

11/17/2009

Wonderful, very moist cake! Tried it with the instant coffee - no so nice. Tried it again with really good coffee - rave reviews.

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creation by Lisa Lynn

2/11/2004

This recipe comes from "Rosie's All-Butter, Fresh Cream, Sugar-Packed, No-Holds-Barred Baking Book" and is perfect in every way. It has been THE chocolate cake recipe in our house for better than a decade.