Easy Delicious Old Fashioned Moist Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup melted butter (2 sticks)
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup hot coffee (hot water plus instant espresso is fine)
• 1 cup milk
• 3/4 cup baking cocoa (nestle toll house works great here)
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup sour cream (optional but it gives amazing moistness to the cake)
• 1 cup whipping cream (double cream)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 8 ounces milk chocolate, melted
• 8 ounces milk chocolate
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3 -4 tablespoons milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 grease a 9 inch round pan with a thin film of butter then dust with flour, shake off any excess flour.
• 3 in a large bowl mix all ingredients listed above in the same order they are mentioned, use a whisk to work out any lumps do not use an electric mixer.
• 4 pour batter into pan, batter will seem runnier than normal cake batters but its fine.
• 5 cake will take 40-50 min to cook depending on ur oven, when u find that the center is set test using a toothpick inserted in the middle, it should come out a tiny bit gooey not completely dry as the cake continues cooking while cooling.
• 6 cool cake in tin on a wire rack then take out b4 its completely cooled, as soon as u feel u can handle it. if it stays too long in the tin it will be too sticky to take out.
• 7 to make frosting, with an electric mixer whip the cream with the vanilla until you reach frosting consistency,
• 8 using a spoon gently fold in chocolate and mix
• 9 frost ur cake when it has completely cooled.
• 10 you can discard the complicated frosting and just serve with warm chocolate sauce and icecream.
• 11 to make chocolate sauce just combine its ingredients in a microwave or melt over a double boiler.
• 12 enjoy!