Amazing Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 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

Recipe

• 1 melt chocolate in a double boiler over hot (not boiling) water, stirring occasionally until melted; set aside to cool.
• 2 grease two 9 by 1 1/2 inch layer cake pans and "flour" with unsweetened cocoa (so the cakes don't look after all that flour); tap out excess cocoa.
• 3 sift flour (cake and all-purpose), baking soda, and salt onto wax paper. preheat oven to moderate (350).
• 4 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.
• 5 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.
• 6 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.
• 7 frost and fill with favorite frosting and pig out :d.