Chocolate Sour Cream Cake {traditional and gluten free recipes}

Chocolate cake with chocolate icing is one of my favorite desserts. This is a well documented fact, because this is the seventh chocolate cake recipe on the blog. I officially promise to refrain from posting another chocolate cake for at least the next few months, okay? They are hard to resist though! When a reader emails you (Thanks, Julie!) with her grandmother's Best Ever Sour Cream Cake recipe, it's hard not to hit the kitchen immediately.

This cake is every bit as good as promised! Rich chocolate cake, extra moist from the scoop of sour cream, is then topped with a rich and creamy chocolate icing glaze. Despite the length of the ingredient list, this is a simple recipe. If you're a fan of the classic Texas Sheet Cake, you'll want to try this version; it is slightly more moist with an icing closer to a pudding than a frosting. This cake was an enormous hit with everyone who tasted it.

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