Chocolate Cake Recipe
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Ingredients: For the Cake:
4 ounces of 70% dark chocolate
1.5 cups sugar
2 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
1 stick of butter (1/2 cup), room temperature
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
¼ cup hot water
For the Dark Chocolate Icing:
½ cup heavy whipping cream
½ cup corn syrup
8 ounces 70% dark chocolate, chopped finely
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Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a pot of simmering water.
2. Whisk the sugar, flour, baking soda and salt in the bowl of a stand-up mixer fitted with a whisk attachment. Add the sour cream and butter and beat well. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until combined. Add the melted chocolate and continue to beat. Add the hot water and mix just until batter is smooth.
3. Butter and flour a cake pan or bread loaf pan and pour in the batter. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the centre of cake. Remove from pan and let cool on a rack.
For the Dark Chocolate Icing:
Heat the cream and corn syrup together then stir in the chocolate. Stir until all the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth and silky. Cool for 15 minutes or so until the mixture is cool to the touch but still runny.
Assembly:
Place the cake on a cooling rack set over a large pan. Ladle the icing over the cake until it is thoroughly covered. If necessary scrape up any icing that falls through the rack into the pan below. Cool the cake in the refrigerator.
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