Red Chocolate Cake
- Yield servings
This beautiful holiday dessert is perfect as cake or cupcakes.
Ingredients
- Cake:
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 4 or 5 teaspoons cocoa
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1/4 cup shortening
- Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 2 tablespoons softened butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 3 ounces cream cheese
Instructions
Cake:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Using an electric mixer, cream shortening, sugar, and eggs in a large bowl. Sift flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa together. Add to shortening mixture alternately with sour cream. Add vanilla, boiling water, and red food coloring. This makes a thin batter. Pour into greased and floured cupcake pan or two 9-inch baking pans. Bake 20 to 25 minutes for cupcakes and 25 to 30 minutes for a large cake. Cool and frost with cream cheese frosting. Decorate as desired. Makes 24 to 28 cupcakes or one two-layer cake.
Icing:
- Using an electric mixer, mix cream cheese, butter and vanilla in a bowl. Add powdered sugar, beating until smooth.
—Cecilia Oakland, Harrison, S.D.
