Ridiculously Delicious Chocolate Cake

By srumbel

This Ridiculously Delicious Chocolate Cake is the perfect holiday dessert. Simple to make and sinfully decadent, the name speaks for itself. It is ridiculously delicious!
from favfamilyrecipes.com

Ingredients

• Cake:
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/2 cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cup hot water
• 2 9 inch round cake pans greased
• Frosting:
• 8 ounces cream cheese (softened room temperature)
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream must be heavy or it won't be thick enough
• fresh raspberries (optional)

Details

Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 105mins

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 300. Combine butter, sugar and cocoa. Add eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. Slowing add this to the the rest of the mixture. While this is mixing, slowly add the hot water, letting all the ingredients melt together, be sure to scape the sides as you go. The finished product will be runny and soupy; do not worry, this means you did it the right way. Pour into round greased pans.

Bake at 300 for about 30-40 min. Check it at 30 minutes and then every 5 minutes until toothpick comes out clean when placed in the center of the cake.
Take it out of the oven and allow to cool for 15 min before removing from pans. Let the cake cool completely on wire racks before frosting.

If you want a 4-layer cake as shown, cut each cake in half. Frost between each layer.

Optional: Sprinkle the top of the cake with sifted powdered sugar and garnish with raspberries.
Must keep refrigerated.

Frosting

First beat the whipping cream with an electric mixer til it has thickened to stiff peaks stage - almost to the thickness of soft butter. Chill the beaters and the bowl in the refrigerator before mixing to speed the process. Remove whipped cream from the mixing bowl and set aside.

Add cream cheese, vanilla, salt and 1 cup of powdered sugar to the mixing bowl. Mix until creamy and well blended.

Alternately add whipping cream and remaining powdered sugar to the mixture, blending well between each addition.

Servings: 12 servings