Erna’s Gourmet Chocolate Cake
This state fair winner is completely from scratch. Taste the difference of real chocolate cake and homemade icing. This will become your family’s requested birthday cake.
Ingredients
- 3 squares unsweetened chocolate
- ½ cup butter
- 2 ¼ cups brown sugar
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 1 ¼ tsp vanilla
- 2 ¼ cups flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup boiling water
- Frosting:
- 4 squares unsweetened chocolate
- ½ cup butter
- 1 pound powdered sugar
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tsp vanilla
- Gurley’s Walnuts, coarsely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Melt chocolate in a small bowl in microwave at 50% power, stir often until melted; let cool. Grease and flour 2 cake pans.
- In a large mixing bowl beat butter.
- Add brown sugar and eggs and beat until light and fluffy.
- Add melted chocolate and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Stir in dry ingredients alternately with sour cream.
- Mix in boiling water. Batter will be thin.
- Pour into pans and bake for 30-35 minutes.
- Let cake cool completely before frosting.
- Homemade Frosting:
- Melt chocolate and butter in microwave.
- In a medium bowl, combine sugar, milk and vanilla.
- Add the chocolate mixture.
- Put this bowl in a larger bowl of ice and stir until frosting is firm enough to spread.
- Garnish with walnuts.