Recipe by Paula Dean

This recipe is great dairy or pareve. I make it dairy and serve it with real whipped cream and strawberries and I make it pareve and serve it as a breakfast cake or welcome snack to guests. I often make them in bread pans too. It makes about 3 loaves but the cooking time is much less, about 55 minutes.

8 ounces (2 sticks) butter, softened (or margarine for pareve cake)
8 ounces sour cream (use tofutti sour cream for pareve cake)
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2-1/4 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 cup cocoa
Serve with whipped cream and strawberries, chocolate sauce, or dust with a generous amount of powdered sugar

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.

Using an electric mixer, cream together the butter, sour cream, and sugar. Add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla.

In another bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, and cocoa. Add 1/2 the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, beat well, add the remaining 1/2 flour mixture, and continue to beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. Continue to bake for an additional 15 minutes if necessary, but do not open the oven to check the cake for at least 1 hour. Cake is done when a tester inserted has loose crumbs.