Recipe: Chocolate Sour Cream Cake

Chocolate Sour Cream Cake

1 stick butter
2 1/2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
1 egg
1 c. sugar
1 c. sour cream
1 1/4 c. sifted cake flour
1/4 t. baking soda

Grease 2 layer pans or bundt pan. Melt butter and chocolate over low heat. Beat egg, add sugar and beat well. Add sour cream and beat. Sift flour with baking soda and mix in by hand, do not beat in. Add melted butter and chocolate and hand mix. Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350 45 min. for bundt pan or 30 min. for the layer pans. Cool 10 min. Invert and cool completely.

Old Fashioned Frosting:
3 1/2 oz. unsweetened bakers chocolate
3 T. butter
3 c. sifted confectioner's sugar
1/4 t. salt
1/4 c. milk
1 t. vanilla
dash of instant coffee granules

Melt the chocolate and butter. Blend all the remaining ingred. and add to the hot chocolate mixture. Let stand in cool place until ready to use.