Vintage Meltaway Chocolate Cream Cake
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Serves: 6-8
 
To adjust for living at high altitude, I reduced the oven temperature to 315˚ and added an extra ¼ cup milk.
Ingredients
  • 2 cups sifted cake flour
  • 1½ cups granulated sugar
  • ½ cup dark cocoa
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup chilled whipping cream
  • 3 egg whites
  • ½ cup milk
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
    FOR THE SOUR CREAM FROSTING
  • 12oz package dark chocolate
  • ¾ cup butter
  • 8 oz sour cream
  • 1lb sifted powdered sugar
Preparation Instructions
  1. Place the bowl of your mixer and whisk attachment, in the fridge to chill it.
  2. Preheat your oven to 350˚. Prepare your cake pans, I used 6" and it made 3 layers but the recipe called for 8" pans. To prepare them, smear butter all over the pan and the dust it with cocoa powder, tapping out the excess. Set pans aside.
  3. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt and set aside.
  4. Then using the chilled bowl and whisk, beat the whipping cream until soft peaks form.
  5. Using a clean beater, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form and then gently fold the whites into the whipped cream.
  6. Sift the dry ingredients over this mixture in fourths, carefully folding in alternately with a mixture of the ½ cup milk and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract.
  7. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
    FOR THE SOUR CREAM FROSTING
  8. In a small saucepan over low heat, carefully melt the chocolate and one stick of butter. Set aside to cool for about 20 minutes.
  9. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter on high for 7 minutes.
  10. Turn the mixer to low and add the sour cream and powdered sugar. Once incorporated, add the chocolate mixture and beat until smooth and homogenized.
  11. Then frost your cake!
Recipe by Foods of Our Lives at https://www.foodsofourlives.com/2013/05/vintage-meltaway-chocolate-cream-cake/