ABBY’S FABULOUS CHOCOLATE CAKE

By stepjo7269

Family Circle’s Great Desserts, pg. 31

Ingredients

• 4 squares unsweetened chocolate
• ½ C. (1 stick) butter or margarine (for cake)
• 1 C. water
• 2 C. sifted cake flour
• 1 1/4 tea. Baking soda
• 1 tea. Salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 C. (8 oz.) Dairy sour cream
• 2 C. sugar
• 1 ½ tea. Vanilla
• Fluffy White Frosting (follows)
• 1 T. butter or margarine (for topping)
• ●Butter 2 eight-inch round layer-cake pans; flour lightly, tapping out any excess flour.
• ●Combine 3 squares of the chocolate, the ½ cup butter or margarine, and water in the top of a double boiler; heat over simmering water until chocolate and butter melt; remove; cool.
• ●Sift the flour, soda and salt into a large bowl.
• ●Beat eggs with sour cream until blended in a medium-size bowl with electric mixer; beat in sugar and vanilla; stir in cooled chocolate mixture.
• ●Beat into flour mixture, half at a time, til smooth. (Batter will be thin.)
• ●Pour into pans.
• ●Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 40 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly pressed with fingertip. Cool in pans. Loosen around edges with a knife. Turn out onto racks.
• ●Make Fluffy White Frosting.
• ●Put cake layers together with about one quarter of the frosting on a serving plate; spread remainder on side and top, making deep swirls with spatula.
• ●Melt remaining 1 square chocolate with 1 tablespoon butter or margarine in a cup set in hot water; stir until smooth. Drizzle over top of cake, letting mixture drip down side.
• FLUFFY WHITE FROSTING
• 2 egg whites
• 3/4 C. sugar
• 1 tea. Cream of tartar
• Dash of salt
• 2 ½ tea. Cold water
• 1 tea. Vanilla
• ●Combine egg whites, sugar, cream of tartar, salt and water in top of double boiler; beat until blended.
• ●Place over simmering water.
• ●Cook, beating constantly with an electric or rotary beater, until mixture stands in firm peaks.
• ●Remove from water; stir in vanilla.

Preparation

Step 1

As above.