Dom Deluise's Outrageous Yum Yum Cake

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Title: Dom Deluise's Outrageous Yum Yum Cake
Categories: Celebrity, Chocolate
Yield: 12 servings

2 c Flour; sifted
1 tb Baking powder
1/2 ts Baking soda
2 c Sugar
1 lg Egg
1/2 c Unsalted butter; room temp
1 c Sour cream
1/2 c Water
2 ts Vanilla
1/2 c Cocoa + 2 tbls
12 oz Semi sweet chocolate chips
-----chocolate butter
-icing-----
6 oz Semi sweet chocolate chips
3 tb Strong coffee
3/4 c Unsalted butter; soften

Preheat oven to 350. Sift flour, baking powder and baking
soda on waxed paper. Butter and flour two 9" cake pans. In
large mixing bowl, beat sugar and egg until sugar is
dissolved. Add butter and mix into egg mixture. Add sour
cream, water and vanilla; beat again. Add flour mixture and
cocoa; beat slowly until flour is absorbed. Do not
overbeat. Fold in chocolate pieces.
Divide mixture in prepared pans. Bake 35-40 minutes or
until tested done. Cool cakes on wire racks for 10 minutes.
Remove from pans and cool completely. Frost.

CHOCOLATE BUTTER ICING: In a small saucepan, melt chocolate
chips in the coffee over very low heat.
Remove pan from heat. Beat in butter, 1 tbls at a time,
until smooth. Set pan in bowl of ice and beat until icing
is spreadable and holds its shape.

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