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Chocolate: Mother's Oh and Ah! Cake

Source of Recipe

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3/18/96


List of Ingredients

3 Unsweetened chocolate (1-oz)
1 c Very hot water
1 t Red food coloring
1 1/2 ts Baking soda
2 c Granulated sugar
1/2 ts Salt
3 Eggs
1/2 c Shortening
2 1/2 c Sifted cake flour (sifted before measuring)
1 c Sour cream


Recipe

Grease and flour 1 (13-by-9-by-2 1/2-inch) pan or 3 (8-inch) cake pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine chocolate and hot water; stir until chocolate melts. Let cool, then add food coloring and baking soda.

Stir and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar, salt, eggs and shortening until fluffy. Mix in a third of the flour, then 1/3 cup sour cream; repeat twice. Add chocolate mixture; beat about 2 minutes on medium speed of mixer.

Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake about 45 minutes for 13-by-9-inch pan (less for cake pans), or until toothpick inserted near center of cake comes out clean. Remove from pans and let cool on rack before frosting.