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Sour Milk Chocolate Cake (with Cream Cheese Icing)

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My mom's chocolate cake from scratch recipe I learned 32 years ago.

"I LOVED this Recipe!!! The cake was a very yummy and Moist chocolate cake--- not dried out like many cakes and the Cream Cheese frosting is to die for!
Recipe was easy to follow :) This cake was a hit with my family, and I will definitely make it again! THANKS!" - Geegir

Yield: 24 Ready in 1 hours

Cuisine: AmericanMain Ingredient: Chocolate

(5, 5) 100% would make again (reviews)

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Sour Milk Chocolate Cake (with Cream Cheese Icing)
This is how the cake looks if mixed the old fashioned way, completely by hand. It complimented my green tea perfectly. photo by cyndidionigi-huffman Give a medal for this photo
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Servings          
Original recipe makes 24
1/2 cupButter
2 cupsSugar
2 largeEgg
1 cupMilk; sour
2 1/2 cupsAll purpose flour
7 tablespoonCocoa
1/2 teaspoonSalt
2 teaspoonBaking soda; dissolved in 1 cup warm water
-- Icing --
4 ounceCream cheese
1/4 cupButter
2 cupsSugar; icing sugar
1 teaspoonVanilla

Sour Milk Chocolate Cake (with Cream Cheese Icing) Preparation

Cake: Cream together butter and sugar. Add 2 eggs, 1 cup sour milk (add 1 tbsp vinegar to milk), flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda. Mix till well blended. Pour in greased 9 x 13 pan. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.

Icing: When cake is cool, mix icing ingredients and moisten with small amount of milk if needed.

Note: Original recipe had the icing amounts doubled; seemed like too much. This is the right amount of icing.

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  • This is how the cake looks if mixed the old fashioned way, completely by hand. It complimented my green tea perfectly. photo by cyndidionigi-huffman cyndidionigi-huffman

  • Calories Per Serving: 515
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    Sour Milk Chocolate Cake (with Cream Cheese Icing) Reviews

    Give it a rating Would you make it again?   [please sign in to add your comment]
    5 stars indeed! Thanks for sharing this. Love it
    1 years, 10 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes ago
    Moist, richly flavored cake. Delicious. I doubled the icing recipe for a layer cake. Extra yum.
    3 years, 2 months, 1 days, 14 hours, 1 minutes ago
    I LOVED this Recipe!!! The cake was a very yummy and Moist chocolate cake--- not dried out like many cakes and the Cream Cheese frosting is to die for!
    Recipe was easy to follow :) This cake was a hit with my family, and I will definitely make it again! THANKS!
    3 years, 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 9 hours, 1 minutes ago
    wonderful cake! has a real old time taste and feel to it..made my whole house smell yummy!
    4 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 15 hours, 28 minutes ago

    [I posted this recipe.]
    6 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 18 hours, 36 minutes ago

    Tags

    1. Kid Friendly
    2. Bake
    3. Desserts
    4. American
    5. Chocolate
    6. Winter
    7. Comforting

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