Steps:
- Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees F. Generously grease the cake pans with butter and dust with flour.
- Whisk sugar, flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl; set aside.
- Place cocoa and coffee in a medium bowl. Whisk in 3/4 cup boiling water to form a smooth paste. Stir in sour cream and vanilla and set aside.
- With a hand mixer in a medium bowl, beat egg whites to soft peaks. Without cleaning beaters, mix melted butter into dry ingredients until mixture is smooth. Immediately add cocoa mixture, and beat until batter is smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Carefully fold egg whites into batter until just incorporated.
- Divide batter evenly between pans and bake until a skewer inserted into center comes out with wet crumbs, 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven, and let cakes sit in pans to cool slightly, about 5 minutes. Invert each cake onto a plate, then onto a cooling rack and split each cake to make 4 layers. Frost with Chocolate Frosting and serve.
- Mix egg substitute or yolks, cocoa, coffee, vanilla, and salt in a small bowl with a whisk.
- Beat butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add melted chocolate and cocoa mixture; continue to beat until smooth. Add confectioners' sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating slowly at first, until sugar has been incorporated into mixture, then at medium speed until frosting is light and fluffy. Add corn syrup, and beat until frosting is smooth and glossy. If frosting is still stiff, add droplets of milk until it is of spreading consistency. (Frosting can be refrigerated for up to 1 week and microwaved for a few seconds until just spreadable).
- Yield: for 4 layer 8-inch cake
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Araceli Delaluz
a_delaluz84@hotmail.frThis cake is amazing! It's the best chocolate cake I've ever had.
Bawafa Janan
j@aol.comThis cake is very moist and flavorful, and the frosting is to die for.
Farzaneh Nassiri
f_nassiri11@gmail.comThis cake is very easy to make, and it's a great recipe for beginners.
Wen Wingate
wingate@hotmail.comThis cake is so moist and flavorful, and the frosting is to die for.
Qadir Kamnger
qadirk@hotmail.comThis cake is amazing! It's the best chocolate cake I've ever had.
Charles Barrett
c.b@yahoo.comThis cake is very moist and flavorful, and the frosting is to die for.
Waqasrajpoot Waqasrajpoot
waqasrajpoot@hotmail.frThis cake is very easy to make, and it's a great recipe for beginners.
Muhammad Sanan
sanan_muhammad@hotmail.comThis cake is so moist and flavorful, and the frosting is to die for.
Emmanuelsony joshuana Ssekwiro
j@yahoo.comThis cake is amazing! It's the best chocolate cake I've ever had.
Lee Mattingley
m.l@gmail.comI love this cake! It's so moist and flavorful, and the frosting is to die for.
Andul Hamid
andul81@gmail.comThis cake is very easy to make, and it's a great recipe for beginners.
krishna jha
j72@hotmail.comI followed the recipe exactly, but my cake didn't turn out as moist as I expected. I'm not sure what went wrong.
Robel Ctg
ctg.robel49@gmail.comThis cake is a bit too sweet for my taste, but it's still very good.
MD MOKSO
mokso_m@gmail.comI'm not a huge fan of chocolate cake, but this one is definitely an exception. It's so moist and flavorful, and the frosting is amazing.
Mudassar Allee
mudassar_allee@yahoo.comThis is the best chocolate cake I've ever had. It's so rich and decadent, and the frosting is perfect.
Theodore Terray
t-t@gmail.comI made this cake for my birthday, and it was a huge success! Everyone loved it, and I've already had several requests for the recipe.
Aqeel Hussein Jamali
jamali.a@yahoo.comThis cake is amazing! It's so moist and flavorful, and the frosting is to die for. I've made it several times now, and it's always a hit.