Sour Cream Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup sour heavy cream
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 3/4 cups pastry flour
• 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder
• 1/4 teaspoon soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
• 1 recipe Sea Foam or Fudge Frosting

Method

1. 1

   Place sour cream, sugar, eggs and flavoring in mixing bowl; beat well.

2. 2

   Sift together dry ingredients and add to first mixture; beat until smooth.

3. 3

   Add melted chocolate.

4. 4

   Bake in 2 greased 9-inch layer cake pans in moderate oven at 375°F for 25 minutes; cool.

5. 5

   Put layers together and cover top and sides of cake with frosting.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal cook book (1930) by Standard Brands Incorporated, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sour Cream Chocolate Cake 1 cup sour heavy cream 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 134 cups pastry flour 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder 4 teaspoon soda 34 teaspoon salt 2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted 1 recipe Sea Foam or Fudge Frosting (page 25) Place sour cream, sugar, eggs and flavoring in mixing bowl; beat well. Sift together dry ingredients and add to first mixture; beat until smooth. Add melte¢) chocolate. Bake in 2 greased 9-inch layer: cake pans in moderate oven at 375° F. for 25 minutes; cool. Put layers together and cover top and sides of cake with frosting, Makes 1 two-layer cake. Coffee Chocolate Cake 3 squares unsweetened chocolate : 34 cup strong hot Chase & Sanborn’s Coffeer 4 cup white corn syrup 44 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 134 cups pastry flour 3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 14 teaspoon salt 1 recipe Marshmallow or Sea Foam Frostings (pages 25-26) Melt chocolate with hot coffee; add! corn syrup, mixing well until mixture: thickens; cool. Cream shortening; add! sugar slowly, beating in well. Add un-- beaten eggs, one at a time, beating well! after each addition. Add vanilla extract.. Sift together dry ingredients; add alter-- nately with cold chocolate mixture to: first mixture. Bake in 2 greased 9-inch: square cake pans in moderate oven at! 350° F’. about 35 minutes. Put layers to-- gether and cover top and sides of cake: with frosting. Makes 1 two-layer cake. Mahogany Cake Y% cup cocoa ¥% cup milk 14 cup shortening 114 cups sugar 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups pastry flour 244 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 14 teaspoon soda

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