Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2004, America's Test Kitchen TV

Tired of great-looking chocolate Bundt cakes that are bland and boring? So were we. Our ideal cake would be moist, rich with chocolate flavor, and attractive.

SERVES 12 to 14

TIME 1½ hours, plus 3½ hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a chocolate Bundt cake recipe that would deliver a cake that tasted every bit as good as it looked, with a fine crumb, moist texture, and rich chocolate flavor, we used both bittersweet chocolate and natural cocoa, dissolving them in bo...

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