Burning Love Chocolate Cream Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 3 unsweetened chocolate squares
• 2 1/4 cups sifted flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 2 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup boiling water
• 2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 pint heavy cream
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Recipe

• 1 melt chocolate in a small bowl over hot (hot boiling) water and cool.
• 2 grease and flour two 9x11/2-inch pans.
• 3 tap out excess flour.
• 4 sift flour, baking soda and salt onto waxed paper.
• 5 preheat oven to 350°.
• 6 beat butter, sugar and eggs in a large bowl with electric mixer on high speed until light and fluffy.
• 7 beat in vanilla and cooled chocolate.
• 8 stir in dry ingredients, alternating with sour cream and beating well with a spoon until smooth.
• 9 stir in water (batter will be thin).
• 10 pour into pans.
• 11 bake for 35 minutes or until centers spring back when lightly pressed with fingertips.
• 12 cool in pans 10 minutes, then turn on wire racks and cool completely.
• 13 split each layer in half crosswise to make 4 thin layers.
• 14 fill and frost with whipped cocoa cream.
• 15 refrigerate.
• 16 to make whipped cocoa cream combine listed ingredients in a chilled medium size bowl.
• 17 whip ingredients in chilled medium bowlwith chilled beaters until stiff.
• 18 you can quickly chill the empty bowl and beaters by putting them in the freezer for 15 minutes or so while the cake is cooling.