Grease & line two 22cm round cake tins with baking parchment.
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Melt the butter, sugar & chocolate together in a pan along with 200ml hot water.
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Once melted, set aside to cool for 2mins before adding the soured cream, followed by the eggs.
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Whisk in the flour & cocoa powder until lump free.
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Bake the cakes for 50 - 55 mins, until a skewer comes out clean.
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Once baked, sit the tins on a wire rack to cool.
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When the cakes are cool, carefully turn them out of the tins & peel of the parchment paper.
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The cakes are now ready to decorate how you wish.. (I decorated mine, by using 350g chocolate fudge icing to sandwich the cakes together & coat the whole cake. Then I used pre rolled white fondant icing to cover the cake. I make the decorations from fondant icing, food colouring & cocktail sticks -A cocktail stick held the star on top of the Christmas tree & two cocktail sticks became the snowmans arms. I finnished the whole cake with a dusting of sugar cystals.)