Sour Cream-Fudge Layer Cake with Chocolate Butter Icing

Name: Sour Cream-Fudge Layer Cake with Chocolate Butter Icing
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 1 cup, natural cocoa powder; 2 teaspoons, instant espresso powder, or instant coffee; 1 cup, boiling water; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1/2 cup, sour cream; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter (2 sticks), softened; 1 3/4 cups, granulated sugar; 2 , large eggs, at room temperature; 1 1/4 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour; 3/4 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 9 ounces, bittersweet chocolate, or semisweet; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 stick); 1/3 cup, light corn syrup

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1994

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

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SERVES12

TIME2 hours, plus 2 hours 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

While developing our fudge layer cake recipe we found very little difference between cakes baked with standard American cocoa and “Dutched” cocoa. We chose water over milk or buttermilk to moisten our cake batter, since the buttermilk cake ...

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