Sour Cream Chocolate Cake Recipe

1/2 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate, melted and cooled
2 cups sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
1 cup boiling water

Preheat oven to 350F.

Grease 2 – 9 inch cake pans, dust pans with flour or line on the bottom with waxed paper.

Cream sugar and butter together in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and melted chocolate.

Sift flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. Add flour mixture and sour cream alternately to butter mixture; beat well after each addition. Stir in boiling water. Batter will be thin.

Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake for 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

Cool pans on wire rack for 10 minutes before removing cake layers from pans. Cool completely before frosting with your favorite chocolate or white frosting.

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