Chinese Chocolate Cake Recipe

• For the Cake:
• ½ cup Unsalted Butter
• 1½ cups Sugar
• ½ cup Brown Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 120 g Unsweetened Chocolate (chopped)
• 2 tsp Espresso Powder
• 1¾ cups Pastry Flour
• ¼ cup Cocoa Powder
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 1 cup Sour Cream
• ½ cup Water
  
  For the Frosting:
• 2 cups Unsalted Butter
• 1 Egg Yolk
• 360 g Bittersweet Chocolate (chopped and melted)
• 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 2½ cups Icing Sugar (sifted)

• Preheat oven to 350 °F.
• Grease two baking pans with butter and flour.
• Combine butter, sugar, and brown sugar in a bowl. Beat until creamy.
• Whip eggs with vanilla in another bowl and fold in the butter mixture.
• Heat water with chocolate and espresso powder in a pan on low flame until melted. Remove and cool.
• Add butter mixture and whisk well.
• Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl.
• Add flour to the butter mixture, alternating with sour cream, a little at a time.
• Divide the mixture amongst the two prepared pans.
• Bake for 25-35 min.