Devil's Food Chocolate Cake

I've been searching lately for the perfect chocolate cake, and I think this may be it. It's dark and moist and tender and just dense enough. It goes great with homemade cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients:

• 3 oz unsweetened chocolate
• 1 1/3 cup flour
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• Six tbsp unsalted butter (unless you're like me and never have the stuff around the house. I used salted and cut back the 1/2 tsp of salt just slightly)
• 3/4 cup boiling water
• 1 1/2 c sugar
• 6 tbsp sour cream or buttermilk
• 2 large eggs

Combine flour and baking soda in a small mixing bowl. In a larger bowl, melt the chocolate. Add the butter, cut into six pieces, then the boiling water. Stir until the butter is all melted, then whisk in the sugar and the sour cream, then the flour mixture, then the eggs.

Pour into two 9" cake pans lined with greased parchment paper or, if your cake pans have suddenly and inexplicably disappeared off the the face of the earth, pour it all into a 13"x9" pan and make a sheet cake. Bake for about 30 minutes at 350, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes away clean.