Sour Cream Chocolate Fudge Cake
1 hour 10 minutes
I think this chocolate fudge cake is best served in the tin it is baked in. I also like it with a peanut butter frosting for extra richness.
3 people made this
Ingredients
Makes: 1 cake
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarb soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 85g dark chocolate, diced
- 170g unsalted butter, softened
- 2 21/4 cups white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 3/4 cup hot water
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hour10min
- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees C. Grease and flour a 22x33cm cake tin.
- Sift together the flour, bicarb soda and salt.
- Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or the microwave. Let cool until just warm.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter until creamy. Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time and beat. Add vanilla. Add chocolate and mix well. Add flour, alternately with sour cream. Gradually add hot water until blended. Pour into cake tin.
- Bake 50 minutes or until it tests done.
