Old-fashioned Deep Chocolate Layer Cake

Ingredients

1 3/4 c sifted all-purpose flour
3/4 c unsweetened cocoa powder
1 t baking soda
1/4 ts salt
2 eggs
2 c sugar
1 stick
2 ts vanilla extract
1 c buttermilk
5 1/2 oz semisweet chocolate
4 c powdered sugar
1 tb unsweetened cocoa powder
1 t vanilla extract
8 tablespoons sour
9 diameter cake pans with
1 1/2 high sides
5 secon transfer contents of work bowl to sheet of waxed paper
3 additions
4 microwave-safe bowl
4 tablespoons sour cream
1 cake layer on platter
3/4 frostin top with cake layer
3/4 frostin top with third cake layer

Instructions

From the files of Al Rice, North Pole Alaska. Feb 1994