Chocolate Heaven Cake


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Chocolate Heaven Cake Chocolate Heaven Cake

54321 Based on 11 Reviews

Difficulty: Easy

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For the cake:
3 cups cake flour (not self-rising)
1 teaspoon salt
1 ½  teaspoons baking soda
4 cups sugar
1 cup sour cream, at room temperature
4 large eggs, at room temperature
1 cup oil
9 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups strong, fresh brewed coffee

For the frosting:
3 sticks unsalted Butter at room temperature
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoons vanilla
9 ounces melted semi sweet chocolate
2 1/2 to 3 cups sifted confectioners sugar

Directions

For the cake:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease bottom and sides of three 9” cake pans.
In a large mixing bowl combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt.
In a medium bowl place chocolate and pour hot coffee and vanilla.
Let stand about 2 minutes to melt the chocolate then stir until smooth.

ln another bowl whisk together eggs and oil until well blended and light in color. Whisk in sour cream, then melted chocolate mixture.
Add chocolate sour cream mixture to dry ingredients and mix on low speed while gradually adding in thirds. Mix until just until incorporated scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Fill prepared pans two thirds full. Bake cakes 40-55 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let cool then decorate as desired.

For the frosting:
Mix butter and milk until smooth and creamy.
Add vanilla just until incorporated.
Add melted chocolate until completely mixed.
Gradually add sugar until you reach the consistency of frosting.

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Reader Comments:

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Baked this cake, but had to toss it out. Followed the recipe exactly, but all three layers stuck to the pans, even though they were greased thoroughly. The cake had a pretty good flavor to it, but just fell apart!

By Debby Brooks on May 11, 2012

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By joey on May 02, 2012

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Paula, It looks just wonderfull! Iam going to bake it for my daughter-in-laws Birthday. Thanks for sharing.

By Louise Hockenson on April 22, 2012

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I have read some of the comments and you mentioned about the frosting, what I would do add some cool-whip to the frosting, I do this alot with alot of my frostings then it isn`t going to be to rich. You could also do this with peanut butter frosting. I love to experiment when it comes to desserts. I hope this helps some people out there smile

By Joyce on February 15, 2012

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My daughter has to have German Chocolate cake on her birthday, my late husband always wanted German Chocolate cake or white cake with peanut butter frosting...

By Sherry on June 27, 2011

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The cake was very good, but we weren't fond of the icing. It was too rich. You could really taste the butter. Next time I will try a different frosting.

By Michelle on June 12, 2011

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chocolate heaven cake. i am going to make today for mothers day. I am sure it will taste just heavenly. I remember making cakes from scratch as a young girl and just want to try it again. Thank you for all your great recipes

By gloria on May 08, 2011

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I love all your recipes,

By maggie poveda on March 04, 2011

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The cake was heavenly. I baked this cake for my daughter-in-law's birthday. The entire family loved it. The cake was very rich and tasted like a brownie. The frosting was very very rich , I think next time I will use a peanut butter frosting. I only had one issue I placed the batter in 3 nine inch pan but the batter ran over. I think next time I would use 4 pans to prevent this from occuring. Thanks for a great chocolate cake recipe.

By Nancy on February 20, 2011

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i have been printing receipes but the lettering in the bottom seems to appear in some receipes for example shows short cuts and the receipe printed over why is this happening do i have to search the receipe a different way?Hope to hear from you i love your receipes great work and best wishes. Ana

By ana isabel silva on January 29, 2011

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Made this for my husband's birthday, the cake was amazing. Tasted like a brownie cake, very moist and not too rich. The icing, however, not my favorite; I will use another next time.

By LindseyBarth on January 09, 2011

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