Sour Cream Chocolate Fudge Cake With Chocolate Buttercream

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup flour
• 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 for the cake: place all the ingredients in a food processor and blend for 30 seconds, or until the nuts are finely chopped.
• 2 pour batter into a 10-inch buttered springform pan and bake in a 350°f oven for about 30 minutes, or until a cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean. allow to cool in pan. remove cake from pan.
• 3 when cool, swirl chocolate buttercream on the top, in a decorative fashion and frost the sides. this is a low cake, so donâ??t think anything went wrong. serves 8.
• 4 for the buttercream: in a bowl, stir together melted chocolate and melted butter until blended. stir in vanilla. yields 3/4 cup frosting.
• 5 note: if you own a microwave oven, chocolate chips and butter can be melted together by placing in a bowl and microwaving for 1 minute on high. turn the bowl and microwave for an additional 30 seconds. stir together until blended.
• 6 if you donâ??t have springform pan then use a regular 10 inch pan and put parchment paper or waxed paper to cover the bottom of cake pan. grease and sprinkle with flour and the cake will come out.
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