Chocolate Fudge Cake

Ina Cordrey’s famous chocolate cake!

Ingredients

Cake

• 3 squares (ounces) unsweetened chocolate
• 2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 tsps baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 tsps vanilla
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup boiling water

Frosting

• 3 squares (ounces) Bakers unsweetened chocolate
• 3 tbsp butter
• 1 box 10x sugar
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 6-7 tbsp milk (if warm weather, less milk needed)

Instructions

Cake

1. Melt chocolate in a small bowl over hot, not boiling water; cool
2. Grease and flour 2 9×1 1/2 inch layer cake pans’ tap out excess flour.
3. Sift flour, baking soda and salt
4. Beat butter until soft in a large bowl. Add brown sugar and eggs: beat with a mixer at high speed until light and fluffy, 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla and cooled melted chocolate.
5. 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. Pour at once into prepared pans.
6. Bake in moderate oven (350 F) for 35 minutes or until centers spring back when lightly pressed with fingertip.
7. Cool layers in pans on wire rack, 10 minutes; loosen around edges with a small knife or spatula; turn onto wire racks; cool completely.
8. Make chocolate fudge frosting. Put one cake layer on a serving plate; spread with about one fourth of frosting; add second layer; spread remainder on side and top of cake, making swirls with spatula.

Frosting

1. Melt together the unsweetened chocolate and butter
2. Add the sugar, salt, and milk and mix until smooth

Enjoy!