Chocolate Yum Yum Cake

Name: Chocolate Yum Yum Cake
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp baking powder; 1 Tbsps baking soda; 177 milliliters butter, softened; 1 egg; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters semisweet chocolate chips; 237 milliliters sour cream; 3 Tbsps strong brewed coffee; 148 milliliters unsweetened cocoa powder; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 118 milliliters water; 473 milliliters white sugar

Chocolate Yum Yum Cake requires about 2 hours from start to finish. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 4g of protein, 17g of fat, and a total of 337 calories. This recipe serves 16. If you have baking powder, sugar, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It works well as a dessert.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa, set aside.

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Baking Soda

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

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Oven

In a medium bowl, beat the sugar and egg until light, add the 1/2 cup butter, beat until smooth. Stir in the sour cream, water, and vanilla.

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Sour Cream

Vanilla

Butter

Sugar

Water

Egg

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Bowl

Add dry ingredients, mix slowly until flour mixture is absorbed. Fold in the 2 cups chocolate chips. Divide the mixture evenly between the two prepared pans.

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Chocolate Chips

All Purpose Flour

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until cake tests done with a toothpick.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Place pans of cake on wire racks to cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to cool completely. When cool frost with the following frosting recipe.

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Frosting

To make the frosting, melt the remaining 1 cup chocolate chips with the coffee in a small saucepan over low heat.

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Chocolate Chips

Frosting

Coffee

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Sauce Pan

Remove pan from heat, and beat in the 3/4 cup of butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, until smooth. Set pan in a bowl of ice and beat until icing is spreadable and holds it's shape. Cool completely before frosting cake.

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Frosting

Butter

Icing