Sour Cream Chocolate Frosting

The very best chocolate frosting you'll ever swirl on a cake! (not to mention, eat!)

I found this recipe in my old Better Homes and Garden cookbook when I ran out of baking cocoa while frosting The Man-Pleaser Chocolate Cake for my lit group. I made a chocolate butter cream frosting, using heavy whipping cream instead of milk. After frosting the middle and putting the two layers together, I realized I did not have enough to frost the outside and top of the cake. Panic! No time to run to the store! I searched for something that would use the baker's chocolate squares I did have. This little nugget of a recipe was there in my old cookbook, all these years!

Sour Cream Chocolate Frosting

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips or 2 unsweetened chocolate squares

1/4 cup butter

1/2 cup sour cream

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/2- 2 3/4 cups powdered sugar

Melt chocolate and butter over hot, not boiling, water in a double boiler.

Remove from hot water and blend in sour cream, vanilla and 1/4 tsp. salt.

Gradually add enough powdered sugar for spreading consistency.

Beat well.

Frosts top and sides of two layer cake or tube cake.

Man Pleaser Chocolate Cake

1 chocolate cake mix

3.9 oz. instant chocolate pudding mix

4 eggs

1 cup sour cream

1/2 c. warm water

1/2 c. oil

12 oz. chocolate chips

Blend ingredients together, fold in chocolate chips. Bake in 2 greased/floured round pans at 350 for 45 minutes. Let cake rest in pan for 20 minutes, then upside down for 20 minutes.