Sour Cream-Fudge Layer Cake with Chocolate Butter Icing

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1994

Starting with a Velvet Devil's Food Cake, the author tests each ingredient to produce the best six chocolate cake recipes, from a sour cream layer cake to a low-fat, low-guilt variation.

SERVES 12

TIME 2 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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