Serendipity Chocolate Cake

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Serendipity Chocolate Cake


This is a dark, dark chocolate cake from Serendipity restaurant in New York...served with two scoops of ice cream helps because it is sooo rich This is a super chocolate cake like the one served at Serendipity Restaurant in New York...serve with a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream to help with the overload of chocolate...


cake
3 cups cake flour
1 3/4 teaspoons baking soda
1 lb unsalted butter, softened
2 lbs packed light brown sugar
7 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 1/2 cups cold water
1 cup sour cream
1 lb unsweetened chocolate, melted

Frosting
1 lb unsweetened chocolate, finely chopped
2 cups heavy cream
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 cups sour cream


Cake. Preheat oven to 325* and butter the bottoms of 4 9-inch cake pans and line with parchment.

Sift together the flour and baking soda. Cream the sugar and butter add eggs
and vanilla to the butter mixture mix thoroughly. Add the dry ingredients in
three parts alternating with the cold water mix completely. Add the sour
cream and melted chocolate.

Divide the batter between the prepared pans. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes cool
the cakes in their pans for 15 minutes the cakes will sink to half their
height

Remove from pans and cool completely.

Frosting.

Place chocolate in large mixing bowl. Heat the cream, sugar, and corn syrup
just to boiling pour over the chopped chocolate slowly stir till smooth.

Add vanilla and cool completely then add sour cream frost store covered at
room temperature.

10 servings

4 layer cake