Sour Cream Chocolate Layer Cake Recipes

CHOCOLATE SOUR CREAM CAKE- SCRATCH RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour three 9 inch pans. This recipe uses the Reverse Creaming Method of Mixing.
• Add dry ingredients to the bowl of your mixer and mix for one minute to blend (sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt)
• Add butter a few slices at a time and mix until it reaches a crumbly, sandy texture. Be careful not to over-mix beyond "sandy" consistency.
• In another bowl, combine sour cream, eggs, milk, and vanilla. Using a fork, mix together. This is all of your wet ingredients except for the coffee, it will be added to the batter later.
• Set a timer for 1 ½ minutes and SLOWLY add half of your egg mixture to your butter/flour mixture while mixing. Start mixer on low speed then increase to medium for the remainder of the 1 ½ minutes. Do Not Mix Above Medium Speed.
• Stop mixer, scrape the sides and bottom of bowl, and add half of the remaining egg mixture. Mix on medium speed for 20 seconds.
• Stop mixer, scrape down the sides if necessary, and add the last of the egg mixture. Mix for 20 more seconds on medium speed.
• Slowly add HOT coffee and mixing for 30 seconds to blend. Batter will be runny but that is okay!
• Make sure the mixing bowl and beaters are clean without a trace of grease. Any grease will keep the egg whites from increasing to full volume.
• Use a separate bowl to separate the eggs. You will be using only the whites and if a yolk happens to break and gets mixed in, the recipe will not work. Place the egg whites into the bowl of your mixer and add the vanilla. Set aside until time to beat the whites.
• In a saucepan, add the water, sugar, cream of tartar (or white corn syrup). Cook on medium/high heat. Do not stir, or stir just enough to distribute the sugar. You don't want sugar crystals sticking to the sides of the pan. The mixture will begin to boil and become clear. After it boils for a minute or so, remove from the heat, you will be able to see that the sugar has dissolved.
• Beat the egg whites and vanilla to the soft peak stage. This happens rather quickly. At soft peak stage, the egg whites will not form peaks but will just fall over, cloud like. At this time, with the mixer beating on low speed slowly pour in a small stream of the hot sugar syrup into the egg whites. Avoid hitting the beaters as you pour because the hot syrup could splash onto you. Increase the mixer to high speed and beat approximately 7 minutes ( it could be longer if using a hand mixer) until stiff peaks form (stiff peaks stand straight up).
• The frosting should be used right away as it sets up rather quickly. The cake can be kept at room temperature or refrigerated. Leftover frosting can be refrigerated or frozen. We found that we did not need to rewhip, but instead just used a fork to lightly stir.
• Makes 10 cups frosting
• (This recipe can be halved. The recipe posted is doubled so that I would have plenty for filling, frosting, and decorative piping).

CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH SOUR CREAM

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the chocolate, water sour cream, shortening, vanilla and eggs; mix well. Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and baking powder; gradually add to chocolate mixture. Beat on low speed just until moistened. Beat on high for 3 minutes. , Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , In a large bowl, combine frosting ingredients. Beat until smooth and creamy. Spread between layers and over top and side of cake. Store in the refrigerator.

SOUR CREAM CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Dissolve cocoa in boiling water; cool. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition. Add cocoa mixture and mix well. , Pour into 3 greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and butter; stir until smooth. Cool for 5 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl. Beat in sour cream and vanilla. Add confectioners' sugar; beat until light and fluffy. Spread between layers and over top and sides of cake. If desired, decorate with sprinkles. Store in the refrigerator.

SOUR CREAM CHOCOLATE CHIP LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Lightly grease 2 8in cake pans.
• Stir flour with baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Beat butter with brown sugar in a separate bowl until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, add vanilla.
• Whisk 1/2 cup sour cream with milk.
• On low speed, alternately beat in flour and sour cream mixtures, in 2 additions, until batter is smooth.
• Stir in 3/4 cup chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
• Divide batter equally between the prepared pans.
• Bake 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes, turnout onto rack to cool completely, once cooled, cut each cake into 2 layers.
• Melt remaining chocolate chips in the microwave on med for 1-2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds.
• Stir in remaining sour cream, beat until fluffy. Chill 15 minutes or until frosting is smooth and approx as thick as peanut butter.
• Use to frost layers and top of cooled cake.

SOUR CREAM DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 9-inch round baking pans.
• Dissolve cocoa powder in boiling water in a bowl; set aside to cool completely.
• Beat white sugar and canola oil together in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth; add eggs, one at time, beating well after each addition. Stir vanilla extract into creamed mixture.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl. Mix flour mixture and sour cream alternately into the creamed mixture. Beat cocoa mixture into batter until incorporated. Pour batter into the prepared baking pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack. Wrap cakes in plastic wrap and store in refrigerator.
• Beat butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy and smooth; scrape down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula. Mix confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, into the creamed butter until sugar is incorporated. Add salt and beat on medium-high until frosting is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
• Place one cake on a serving plate; spread 1/4 the frosting on the top of cake. Place second cake on the frosting layer; spread 1/4 the frosting on second cake. Place the third cake atop the second cake. Spread the remaining frosting on the top cake and around sides of entire layer cake.

SOUR CREAM CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Make cake layers:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans, knocking out excess flour.
• Into a bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a small bowl whisk together sour cream, water, and vanilla.
• In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour mixture to butter mixture in batches alternately with sour cream mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture and beating until batter is blended well.
• Divide batter between prepared pans and smooth tops. Bake layers in middle of oven 25 to 30 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool cake layers in pans on racks 10 minutes before turning out onto racks to cool completely. Cake layers may be made 1 week ahead and frozen, wrapped well in plastic wrap. Thaw layers before proceeding with recipe.
• Make frosting:
• In a bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add remaining ingredients and beat until combined well.
• Assemble cake:
• Arrange 1 cake layer on a large plate and spread with about 3/4 cup frosting. Top frosting with remaining cake layer. If making tepee birthday cakes, stop here and reserve remaining frosting. If making conventional layer cake, spread top and side of cake with remaining frosting.

SOUR CREAM CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Sift togetehr the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a large mixing bowl.
• Add shortening, sour cream, vanilla, eggs, water and chocolate (melted then cooled).
• Beat with an electric mixer at low speed, scraping bowl constantly, for 1/2 minute.
• Increase speed to high and beat an additional 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
• Pour batter into 2 greased and waxed-paper lined 9-inch round cake pans.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degree F.
• Oven for 35 minutes or until cake tests done.
• Cool in pans on racks for 10 minutes.
• Remove from pans and cool completely on the racks.
• Place one cake layer on serving plate.
• Spread with Sour Cream / Chocolate Frosting.
• Top with second cake layer.
• Frost sides and top of the cake with the remaining Sour Cream/Chocolate Frosting.
• SOUR CREAM/CHOCOLATE FROSTING: Combine the softened butter or margarine, confectioners' sugar, and sour cream in a mixing bowl; blend well.
• Add chocolate which has been melted and cooled and vanilla.
• Beat until smooth.
• Try this little trick when making this cake.
• Take the layer that has the least amount of rise on the top and trim it to be flat with a sharp knife.
• Place the trimmed side down (layer should be upside down).
• Then frost between layers and place the other layer on right side up and finished frosting.
• It will give the illusion of having a cake with only one domed layer and will sit better on your cake plate.
• Also the trimmings are great eating just plain for the cook or for the kids.