Old Fashioned Sour Cream Fudge Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups swans down cake flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 unsweetened chocolate squares, melted and cooled
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup boiling water
• 5 unsweetened chocolate squares, melted and cooled
• 3 cups icing sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/3 cup hot water
• 1 egg

Recipe

• 1 cake: preheat oven to 350 degf.
• 2 sift tog.
• 3 flour, baking soda and salt, set aside.
• 4 cream butter, then add brown sugar and continue beating for 5 minutes.
• 5 add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 6 add vanilla and chocolate.
• 7 alternately blend in flour mixture and sour cream, 1/3 at a time on low speed of electric mixer.
• 8 add boiling water, blending well (batter will be thin).
• 9 pour into 2 greased and floured 9" round layer cake pans.
• 10 bake at 350 degf for 35- 40 minutes or until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean.
• 11 cool in pans for 10 minutes; remove and finish cooling on racks.
• 12 frosting: combine chocolate, icing sugar, butter, hot water and egg.
• 13 blend; then beat at medium speed of electric mixer for 2 minutes.
• 14 chill until of spreading consistency.
• 15 carefully ice cake (cake crumb is very tender).
• 16 you may not want to use the above icing due to the raw egg, so i would suggest making a seven minutes frosting.