Sour Cream Dark Chocolate Cake

Sour Cream Dark Chocolate Cake
Sour Cream Dark Chocolate Cake is a vegetarian recipe with 8 servings. One portion of this dish contains approximately 11g of protein, 59g of fat, and a total of 1075 calories. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works best as a dessert, and is done in approximately 2 hours. If you have confectioners' sugar, baking soda, water, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 9-inch round baking pans.
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Dissolve cocoa powder in boiling water in a bowl; set aside to cool completely.
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Beat white sugar and canola oil together in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth; add eggs, one at time, beating well after each addition. Stir vanilla extract into creamed mixture.
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Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl.
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5
Mix flour mixture and sour cream alternately into the creamed mixture. Beat cocoa mixture into batter until incorporated.
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6
Pour batter into the prepared baking pans.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack. Wrap cakes in plastic wrap and store in refrigerator.
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8
Beat butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy and smooth; scrape down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula.
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9
Mix confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, into the creamed butter until sugar is incorporated.
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10
Add salt and beat on medium-high until frosting is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
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11
Place one cake on a serving plate; spread 1/4 the frosting on the top of cake.
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12
Place second cake on the frosting layer; spread 1/4 the frosting on second cake.
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13
Place the third cake atop the second cake.
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Spread the remaining frosting on the top cake and around sides of entire layer cake.
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DifficultyExpert
Ready In2 hrs
Servings8
Health Score5
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