Sour-Cream Chocolate Layer Cake

Name: Sour-Cream Chocolate Layer Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 170 grams bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 57 grams dark and white chocolate shavings for garnish, optional; 4 egg yolks; 2 eggs; 532 milliliters sifted flour; 0 teaspoons salt; 315 milliliters sour cream; 118 milliliters sugar; 414 milliliters sugar; 227 grams sticks unsalted butter, cut into 16 pieces, at room temperature; 170 grams 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature; 118 milliliters unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 118 milliliters boiling water

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Sour-Cream Chocolate Layer Cake a try. This recipe serves 10. One portion of this dish contains approximately 8g of protein, 51g of fat, and a total of 799 calories. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have flour, egg yolks, sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Position a rack in middle of oven and preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour 2 (9-by-2-inch) round cake pans.

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All Purpose Flour

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Oven

Make chocolate cake: In a glass measure, whisk together cocoa and boiling water until smooth. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.

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Baking Soda

Chocolate

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Water

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat together butter, sugar and vanilla until well-blended (mixture will be dry).

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Vanilla

Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add eggs one at a time, beating well on medium speed after each addition. Scrape down bowl. Reduce speed to low and beat in flour mixture in 3 parts alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour, just until blended, scraping bowl when halfway done.

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Sour Cream

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Bowl

Add cocoa mixture and blend. Evenly divide batter between pans.

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Cocoa Powder

Bake cake for 30 minutes or until a tester inserted near center comes out clean. Cool cakes on racks for 20 minutes. Invert cakes onto racks; remove pans.

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Oven

Let cakes cool completely.

Make bittersweet-chocolate frosting: Melt chocolate in a double boiler, whisking until smooth.

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Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate

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Double Boiler

Whisk

Whisk in 2 Tbsp. water. Set aside. In another double boiler, cook sugar and egg yolks, whisking, until sugar dissolves and mixture is warm, 3 minutes.

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Egg Yolk

Sugar

Water

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Double Boiler

Whisk

Whisk sugar mixture into chocolate mixture; stir in vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on high speed for 3 minutes. Beat in butter, 1 piece at a time, beating until smooth.

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Chocolate

Vanilla

Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Whisk

Place 1 cake layer right side up on a serving plate.

Spread 1 cup chocolate frosting evenly on top.

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Chocolate Frosting