Easiest Way to Prepare Yummy Doctored-up Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Fudgy Frosting

Doctored-up Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Fudgy Frosting. Whisk in the sour cream until fully combined. Then whisk in the confectioners' sugar. If the frosting becomes too stiff to spread, rewarm briefly over low heat and whisk again until smooth.

I love to bake and cook but cakes are a long process. A couple years ago a friend gave me her grandma's recipe for doctored-up cake mix chocolate cake. It uses extra eggs, sour cream, a pudding pack. You can cook Doctored-up Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Fudgy Frosting using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Doctored-up Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Fudgy Frosting

1. You need of For the cake:.
2. You need 18 oz. of devil's food cake mix.
3. Prepare 3 oz. of instant chocolate pudding mix.
4. You need 1 c of sour cream.
5. It's 1 c of vegetable oil.
6. Prepare 4 of eggs.
7. Prepare 1/2 c of milk.
8. It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
9. You need pinch of sea salt.
10. It's 2 c of semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional).
11. It's of For the frosting:.
12. Prepare 12 oz of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
13. Prepare 8 oz of sour cream.
14. Prepare 1/2 c of butter.
15. You need 4 1/2 c of sifted powdered sugar.

Using a small metal spatula, loosen sides of each cake layer. Place a wire rack on top of one pan; carefully invert pan with rack. Repeat with the remaining cake layer. The end result is a fudgy chocolate layer cake with tons of frosting (and yes, it is going to be sweet).

Doctored-up Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Fudgy Frosting instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF..
2. Beat together all of ingredients until smooth batter forms, reserving the chocolate chips if using..
3. Mix in the chocolate chips with a rubber spatula. (optional).
4. Divide batter into two 10-inch round baking pans (you can use other pans and baking times according to the directions on the cake mix box). Bake for 30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean..
5. Let cool before frosting..
6. For the frosting, in large pan over low heat melt and stir semisweet chocolate pieces and butter. Cool 10 minutes. Stir in sour cream. Stir in powdered sugar; stir until smooth. Makes 4 cups..

It is KEY to cut the layers in half. It ends up being a much moister cake this way because the frosting kind of melts into the cake layers forming a kind of fudgy filling in between the thin cake layers. I hope you enjoy it :) Chocolate Sour Cream Cake. If you're looking for an easy chocolate cake that's super moist and fudgy - then this sour cream chocolate cake is for you. It isn't much harder than using a box mix, and it turns out perfect every time.