Hot Cocoa Cake

We first baked this cake during the mid-90s when low-fat eating was the primary topic of health and diet conversations. We used low-fat buttermilk and called it, unimaginatively, low-fat buttermilk cake. It was tasty and had some followers but not a huge number. In the early 2000s, after many of us had given up on low-fat diets, we decided to fatten it up and create a more evocative name. Sour cream was the key addition.

Hot Cocoa Cake is now a favorite for many, and it is definitel