Recipe: Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate Cake (for chocolate addicts only)
Newsgroup posting by harpo!mmp

This is the best, most chocolatey cake I've ever had. Definitely not for people who don't like chocolate!

3 oz. unsweetened chocolate
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour (or 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/4 cup cornstarch)
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup butter
2 1/4 cups brown sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup sour cream
1 cup boiling water

Melt chocolate, cool. Sift dry ingredients together. Cream butter, add brown sugar, add eggs. Beat until light and fluffy (about 5 minutes). Beat in vanilla and chocolate. Stir in dry ingredients alternately with sour cream. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour at once into 9-inch greased and floured cake pans. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes or until center springs back when touched lightly. Cool 10 minutes in pans, remove from pans and cool completely. Frost.

Frosting:
4 oz. unsweetened chocolate
1/2 cup butter
1 lb. confectioner's sugar
1/2 cup milk
2 tsp. vanilla

Melt chocolate and butter. Combine rest of ingredients in another bowl. Mix together. Set bowl in pan of ice water, beat until thick enough to spread.