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Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Frosting:
4 squares unsweetened chocolate
1/2 c butter
1 package (1 pound) powdered sugar
1/2 c milk
2 tsp vanilla extract

Cake:
3 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 1/4 c sifted cake flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c butter
2 1/4 c firmly packed light brown sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 c sour cream
1 c boiling water
Directions:
Directions:
Cake:
Melt chocolate in a small bowl over hot, not boiling water; cool. Grease and flour two 9" cake pans; tap out excess flour.

Sift flour, baking soda and salt onto wax paper.

Beat butter until soft in large bowl. Add brown sugar and eggs; beat with mixer at high speed until light and fluffy, 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla and cooled melted chocolate.

Stir in dry ingredients alternately with sour cream, beating well with a wooden spoon after each addition until batter is smooth. Stir in boiling water (Batter will be thin) Pour at once into prepared pans.

Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) for 35 minutes, or until center spring back when lightly pressed with fingertip.

Cool layers in pans on wire rack, 10 minutes; loosen around edges with a small knife or spatula; turn out onto wire racks; cool completely. Cover with frosting.

Frosting:
Combine chocolate and butter in small heavy saucepan. Place over low heat, just until melted. Remove from heat.

Combine powdered sugar, milk and vanilla in medium-size bowl; stir until smooth, add chocolate mixture. Set bowl in of pan ice water; beat with wooden spoon until frosting is thick enough to spread and hold its shape.

 

 

 

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