Chocolate cake aka Devil's Food Cake. Todays video is for the best and easiest chocolate cake you will ever made, a fabulous Devils Food Cake. In this Devil's Food Cake recipe, as in most cake recipes, you'll notice the words "at room temperature" after the butter, eggs, and sour cream. Oil is particularly great in chocolate cakes because chocolate tends to dry out a cake. And this cake has a LOT of chocolate. This chocolate cake is absolutely thee best we have ever had.
This chocolate cake is absolutely thee best we have ever had.
It is so moist and rich, I never make anything else (unless I am short on time :) The frosting recipe included goes perfectly with this cake, but you can use any frosting you like.
A Devil's Food Cake is an American classic.
You can cook Chocolate cake aka Devil's Food Cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chocolate cake aka Devil's Food Cake
- Prepare 2 cups of flour.
- You need 1 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 3/4 cups of cocoa powder.
- You need 2 cups of sugar.
- Prepare 1 cup of Canola oil.
- You need 2 of eggs.
- It's 1 tsp of Vanilla.
- You need 1 cup of hot coffee.
- It's 1 cup of butter milk.
With its almost black color, it is probably the most 'chocolately' of the chocolate cakes. To go with that rich chocolate flavor is a cake with a wonderfully soft crumb that is dense and moist. For a double dose of chocolate we fill and frost this cake with a. "Devil's food cake is known as the chocolate version of angel food cake; it's airy and light but rich in chocolate flavor," says Pollack. The pastry expert explains that the light and airy texture—yet potent chocolate flavor—is a result of cocoa powder as well as extra baking soda and oil.
Chocolate cake aka Devil's Food Cake step by step
- Pre- heat oven at 175°.
- In a large bowl whisk dry ingredients together.
- Add coffee,oil and butter milk and mix well till combined.
- Add eggs a mix for two minutes.
- Pour butter into 2 greased and floured 9 inch round baking tin.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
Devil's food cake is a moist, rich chocolate layer cake. It is considered a counterpart to the white or yellow angel food cake. The devil's food cake was meant to be, I had all the ingredients on hand, and shy of the buttermilk, you probably do too. The frosting is Claire's Marshmallow Icing, it's also in the same beautiful book. It's billowy, sweet, vanilla-flecked, and a compelling alternative to buttercream.