Amazing Chocolate Cake
- 5 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares (I use Godiva)
- 1 1/8 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/8 cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 2 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar (I've used light and dark, so whatever you happen to have on hand is fine)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup dairy sour cream
- 1 cup boiling water
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler over hot (not boiling) water, stirring occasionally until melted; set aside to cool.
- Grease two 9 by 1 1/2 inch layer cake pans and "flour" with unsweetened cocoa (so the cakes don't look white after all that flour); tap out excess cocoa.
- Sift flour (cake and all-purpose), baking soda, and salt onto wax paper. Preheat oven to moderate (350).
- Beat butter, sugar, and eggs in a large bowl with electric mixer at high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and cooled chocolate.
- Stir in dry ingredients, alternating with sour cream, beating well with a spoon, until smooth. Stir in water. (Batter will be thin) Pour into prepared pans.
- Bake in preheated moderate oven (350) for 35 minutes, or until centers spring back when light pressed with fingertip. Cool in racks 10 minutes; turn out on wire racks;cool completely.
- Frost and fill with favorite frosting and pig out :D.
semisweet chocolate baking squares, flour, cake flour, baking soda, salt, butter, brown sugar, vanilla, sour cream, boiling water
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/amazing-chocolate-cake-436617 (may not work)