Chocolate Cream Cake

== Ingredients ==
=== Cake ===
* 3 unsweetened chocolate squares
* 2¼ cups sifted flour
* 2 teaspoons baking soda
* ½ teaspoon salt
* ½ cup butter or margarine, softened
* 2¼ cups firmly packed light brown sugar
* 3 eggs
* 1½ teaspoons vanilla
* 1 cup sour cream
* 1 cup boiling water
=== Whipped Cocoa Cream ===
* ⅔ cup confectioner's sugar
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 1 pint heavy cream
* ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
== Directions ==
=== Cake ===
# Melt chocolate in a small bowl over boiling water and cool.
# Grease and flour two 9x11½-inch pans.
# Tap out excess flour.
# Sift flour, baking soda and salt onto waxed paper.
# Preheat oven to 350 °F.
# Beat butter, sugar and eggs in a large bowl with electric mixer on high speed until light and fluffy.
# Beat in vanilla and cooled chocolate.
# Stir in dry ingredients, alternating with sour cream and beating well with a spoon until smooth.
# Stir in water (batter will be thin).
# Pour into pans.
# Bake for 35 minutes or until centers spring back when lightly pressed with fingertips.
# Cool in pans 10 minutes, then turn on wire racks and cool completely.
# Split each layer in half crosswise to make 4 thin layers.
# Fill and frost with Whipped Cocoa Cream.
# Refrigerate.
=== Whipped Cocoa Cream ===
# Combine listed ingredients in a chilled medium size bowl.
# Whip ingredients in chilled medium bowl with chilled beaters until stiff.
# You can quickly chill the empty bowl and beaters by putting them in the freezer for 15 minutes or so while the cake is cooling.
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