Happy wife, happy life chocolate cake from Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home-Cooking Triumphs (page 224) by Julia Turshen

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  • mdagl on January 21, 2023

    Excellent! Pretty easy too! Cake is light but moist and tender.

  • ChelseaP on May 22, 2021

    Love this cake! Make it all the time. It keeps really well in the fridge and the sour cream makes the frosting so tangy and delicious.

  • MollyB on May 21, 2021

    Easy and good cake (though not great). The frosting was easy to make and to handle, and made just the right amount, but I wanted more chocolate flavor. I might try a dark chocolate ganache next time. I would definitely make this again if I want a quick, good cake. I liked it better the second day out of the fridge.

  • Tatiana131 on February 20, 2018

    I was totally unimpressed with this cake. It was a fluffy, not too sweet cake, that didn't have a particularly delicious flavor, and tasted very faintly of baking soda. The sour cream frosting was not a great hit, nor did it complement the cake all that well. The raspberry jam made it reminiscent of black forest cake, but without the whipped cream to temper the sourness. Not a great cake in our house, maybe 2.5/5.

  • mzgourmand on November 19, 2017

    Really delicious & Easy chocolate cake recipe - skipped the raspberry jam as there were resistant children in the party! I bake a lot & was impressed by this one - will definitely be making it again in the future.

  • hirsheys on March 12, 2017

    This cake was quite easy and very tasty. We made it for my sister's birthday. Mine came out flatter than the pictures, but I think that might have been due to the help I received from my 8 year old niece, rather than the recipe itself. Regardless, we all enjoyed the taste very much. This is a nicely grown up dump-it cake and is not too sweet. The whole thing is super easy, too.

  • bwhip on March 09, 2017

    Really tasty cake, simple to make with great texture and flavor. I made them as cupcakes, as I didn't have a couple of 8" cake pans readily available. My frosting was a little tough to spread smoothly over the slippery raspberry jam, due to it setting up fairly stiff. Recipe calls for room temperature sour cream (mine was still pretty cold), though it does recommend cooling it in the refrigerator after combining with the melted chocolate. The flavor combination of chocolate, raspberry, and tangy sour cream frosting is excellent.

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