Chocolate Sour Cream Snack Cake

A chocolate snack cake that boasts of cocoa powder and sour cream inside the cake batter and the frosting. Rich with chocolate flavor and moist from sour cream, it’s a dense cake that you will find irresistible.

Maybe, like me, you’re wondering what makes a ‘snack’ cake different from regular cake?!

A snack cake is a cake you cut a square off every time you pass by the kitchen. Ahem. Just a little square. To savor. A little square that for the moment will appease your sweet tooth with the promise of more to come. And because it’s a snack cake having more is perfectly acceptable! It’s an unwritten rule.

I have a thing for cold chocolate cake. The refrigeration effect turns the frosting into candy. Delectable.

Chocolate Sour Cream Snack Cake

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

1 hour

Yield: 1 (9x13) cake

Chocolate Sour Cream Snack Cake

A chocolate snack cake that boasts of cocoa powder and sour cream inside the cake batter and the frosting. Rich with chocolate flavor and moist from sour cream, it's a dense cake that you will find irresistible.

Ingredients

1 + 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 + 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa*

1 + 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup shortening or butter, softened

1 cup milk

1/2 cup sour cream (regular or light, not non-fat)

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

frosting:

4 tablespoons butter, at room temperature

1/3 cup sour cream (not non-fat)

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa, sifted

4 cups confectioners’ sugar, plus more if needed

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 9x13x2 inch baking pan.
In a large mixing bowl sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt together. Add shortening, milk and sour cream; beat on medium speed 2 minutes, occasionally scraping down sides of bowl. Add eggs and vanilla; beat 2 more minute.
Pour batter into prepared pan; bake 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from center. Cool on wire racks 15-20 minutes, turn out and cool completely. Frost with Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting.
To make frosting: in a large mixing bowl cream butter and sour cream together until fluffy on medium speed, beat in vanilla and cocoa powder, add one cup of confectioners’ sugar at a time until you reach a nice, thick consistency, continue to beat on medium speed until fluffy 3-4 minutes. Spread evenly over top of cake.

Notes

*Use Dutch-processed or European cocoa.

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Comments

Alexis L Irvin says:

12/15/2011 at

yum, these look so thick and fluffy!!!

Magic of Spice says:

12/14/2011 at

I love snack cakes, but they just end up gone instantly at my house. These look wonderful :)

Juliana says:

12/14/2011 at

Reeni, I am printing the recipe as I write this comment…I have all the ingredients handy and will definitely try this cake, it sure looks simple with a nice texture, yummie.
Hope you are having a wonderful week :-)

Jessica says:

12/14/2011 at

Wow, looks so delicious!

Ivy says:

12/14/2011 at

Wow, a chocolate snack! I could snack on this cake all day:) It looks scrumptious and delicious!