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Sour Cream Chocolate Cake
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Servings: 8
Categories:
Cakes
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Chocolate
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Desserts
Ingredients:
-----CAKE----- 4
ounces
Chocolate,
bitter
1
cup
Water,
hot
2
Eggs 2
cups
Sugar 1
cup
Sour cream 2
cups
Bread flour,
sifted
1
teaspoon
Baking soda 1/2
teaspoon
Salt 2
teaspoons
Vanilla
-----ICING----- 2
cups
Sugar 1/4
cup
Cocoa 1
teaspoon
Corn syrup,
white
1/2
cup
Milk 1/2
cup
Butter or margarine 1
cup
Pecans,
chopped
1
teaspoon
Vanilla
Directions:
*** CAKE ***
1. Melt chocolate with hot water over low heat. Cream eggs and sugar thoroughly. Add sour cream and mix. Add flour, soda and salt.
2. Combine chocolate mixture with egg mixture. Add vanilla.
3. Pour into 2 greased and floured 8" cake pans. Place in cold oven.
Set oven at 300 degrees and bake 30 to 35 minutes. Or cake may be baked 50 to 60 minutes in a 9x13" pan. Cool and ice.
*** ICING ***
Mix sugar and cocoa in saucepan. Add margarine, corn syrup and milk.
Bring to a boil; boil 2 minutes. Cool 5 minutes. Beat until thick enough to spread. Add pecans and vanilla. Spread between layers and on top of cake.
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