The Best Chocolate Cake

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This is my favorite chocolate cake recipe. Whenever I make it, it always gets rave reviews. I use it with other icings, and as a base for fancier desserts. If I don’t want a layer cake, I make it in a 9 by 13 inch cake pan (as shown here with Caramel Frosting).

7 minute frosting is one of my favorites too – we used to make it all the time when I was a kid – it was kind of fun to make too. It gives you a light fluffy frosting that is not too sweet. Don’t try to make it on a humid day though – it will turn out grainy instead of fluffy.

The Best Chocolate Cake

Joan Donogh
A moist and delicious chocolate cake.
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 16

Ingredients
  

Cake:

  • 3 squares unsweetened chocolate
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 1/4 cups light brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 cup boiling water

7 Minute Frosting:

  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 1/2 cups white or brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup cold water
  • 2 tablespoons corn syrup
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions
 

Cake:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Melt chocolate, either on the stove or in the microwave. Set aside.
  • Beat butter in large mixer bowl. Add brown sugar and eggs, and beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add vanilla and melted chocolate, and beat to combine.
  • Combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to chocolate mixture gradually, alternating with sour cream. Beat after each addition.
  • Stir boiling water into the batter - the batter will be thin. Pour into two 9 inch round cake pans which have been greased and floured.
  • Bake for 35 minutes, until cake centre springs back when touched. Cool for 10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely.

Minute Frosting:

  • In top of double boiler, combine egg whites, sugar, water, corn syrup and salt. Cook over boiling water, beating with hand or rotary mixer, until it will stand in peaks, about 7 minutes.
  • Remove from heat, beat in vanilla. Fill and frost cooled cake.

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