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Best Basic Chocolate Cake

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

1/2 cup butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1-1/2 tsp. vanilla
3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted & cooled
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup sour cream
1 cup boiling water
Milk chocolate icing (recipe follows)


Recipe

Beat butter and sugar together in large mixing bowl; add eggs; beat until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and chocolate. Sift together dry ingredients; add alternately with sour cream to butter mixture, beating well after each addition. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9-inch layer cake pans. Bake in preheated 350 degree F. oven 35 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool in pan on wire racks 10 minutes. Turn out onto racks; cool completely. Fill and frost as desired. Yield: 12 servings.


MILK CHOCOLATE ICING
1/2 cup butter
1 (16 oz.) box confectioner's sugar, sifted
1/4 cup milk
6 oz. milk chocolate chips, melted and cooled

Beat all ingredients together until light and fluffy. Yield: Approximately 2 cups.