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Ever-so-moist Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Mystic_river1 / All my dishes 2 years ago This is from the Cake Mix Doctor and boy is it great! Melts in your mouth....not in your hand. It feeds 12 normal people or 2 chocoholics! Prep:45m Cook:30m Servings:12	Mystic_rive
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Ingredients

The CAKE

Solid vegetable shortening for greasing the pans

Flour for dusting the pans

1 package (18.25 ounces) devil's food cake mix with pudding

1 cup sour cream

¾ cup water

½ cup vegetable oil

3 large eggs

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

CHOCOLATE SOUR CREAM FROSTING

Makes 3 cups, enough to frost a 2- or 3-layer cake or 30 cupcakes

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

easy

RECIPE INGREDIENTS

8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, cut into 8 pieces

2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted

1/3 cup sour cream

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350° F.

Generously grease two 9-inch round cake pans with solid vegetable shortening, then dust with flour.

Shake out the excess flour.

Set the pans aside.

Place the cake mix, sour cream, water, oil, eggs, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl.

Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute.

Stop the machine and scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula.

Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat 2 minutes more, scraping down the sides again if needed.

The batter should look well combined.

Divide the batter between the prepared pans, smoothing it out with the rubber spatula.

Place the pans in the oven side by side.

Bake the cakes until they spring back when lightly pressed with your finger, 28 to 32 minutes.

Remove the pans from the oven and place them on wire racks to cool for 10 minutes.

Run a dinner knife around the edge of each layer and invert each onto a rack, then invert again onto another rack so that the cakes are right side up.

Allow to cool completely, 30 minutes more.

Meanwhile, prepare the Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting.

When frosting is ready

Place one cake layer, right side up, on a serving platter.

Spread the top with frosting.

Place the second layer, right side up, on top of the first layer and frost the top and sides of the cake with clean, smooth strokes

DIRECTIONS FOR CAKE TOPPING AND FILLING

. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat or melt it in a large glass bowl in the microwave oven on high power for 45 seconds.

Place the melted butter in a large mixing bowl and add the cocoa powder.

Whisk until smooth.

Add the confectioners' sugar alternately with the sour cream, blending with an electric mixer on low speed for 1 to 1½ minutes, or until incorporated.

Stop the machine and add the vanilla. Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat until light and fluffy, 1 minute more.

Use the frosting to frost the top and sides of the cake

Store this cake in a cake saver or under a glass dome, in the refrigerator for up to 1 week

.Or freeze it, in a cake saver, for up to 6 months.

Thaw the cake overnight in the refrigerator before serving.

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Comments

momto4 2 years ago said:
With a family of 6 chocoholics we would need 3 cakes!!!! Looks beautiful!

jo_jo_ba 2 years ago said:
Oh yah! That's what I"M talking about!

ahmed1 2 years ago said:
Hi..I can't stop myself checking this cake recipe every now and then.It looks great and delicious and I like the sour cream frosting,it is new for me.This one is must-try version..

newwonder09 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Looks Amazing!!!

henrie 1 year, 10 months ago said:
That chocolate cake looks amazing. Gotta have some. Great post.

canzi 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Yum.

annieamie 1 year, 9 months ago said:
Yep! It would feed 2 Chocoholics here in my home! Well maybe three! I was glad to see that this recipe was added to the Chocoholics Group. It certainly belongs there! And this sounds just great. I have the Cake Mix Doc book and can't believe that I haven't made this recipe yet. I'm so glad you posted this here for all of us. I'll just have to make it (And eat at least half of it!)

elisabizter 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I think i could eat this whole cake by myself.
just get a good movie and im set.
it sounds sooooooo yummy!!!!

canzi 1 year, 6 months ago said:
I made this cake for my husband's birthday. It turned out great. We can't decide which cake we like better - my Killer Chocolate Cake, or this one! Thank you for the great recipe!

umber 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Need to make a chocolate cake for a dinner party tomorrow Im looking for a frosting and I think this may be it!!! Ill let you know how it turns out! Does 1 Stick of butter mean 1 whole packet? How many grams?

trigger 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Thank you for making my Birthday cake. The Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting is outstanding. Now the trick is to place all 52 candles and light them without ending up with a wax covered cake LOL
High five Joymarie.
Michael

gottaluvit 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Mystic, Just wanted you to know I picked this recipe out of many to make for my brother in laws B-day. It was super! I got rave reviews and directed them to group recipes.....I got 2 requests for the recipe and I meant to give it a 5 but somehow I hit the 4 ...but it's a 5!!

mystic_river1 1 year, 1 month ago said:
I WISH I KNEW WHO THAT GIRL IS AND WHO PUT THAT PIC ON MY RECIPE!

angelgirl94 3 months, 2 weeks ago said:
Perfect for a chocoholic like me. Bookmarked! Thanks for posting. :)

cutegirl23 3 months, 1 week ago said:
Can you buy the pudding, or is it stapled to the box? If not, can we use any pudding we'd like? Please leave me a message on my food page letting me know! Thx! :)

yellowspier 1 month, 2 weeks ago said:
Frosting too sweet to for me.

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