Best 8 Devils Food Cake Recipes

DEVILS FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder, soda, cocoa, and salt into a large mixing bowl.
• Stir in the sugar.
• Lightly beat the eggs, milk and vanilla.
• Add to the mixing bowl, then add the oil and coffee.
• Beat until a smooth batter is formed.
• Pour batter into a greased and lined 23cm square tin.
• The batter will be thin.
• Bake at 180°C degrees for about 1 hour or until the cake springs back when lightly touched.
• Leave in tin 5 minutes before turning on to a cooling rack.
• When cold dust with icing sugar or ice with your favourite frosting.

MAMAW'S DEVILS FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
• In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Stir in the vanilla. Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, cloves and cinnamon. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 35 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. To make the frosting, use the second set of ingredients.
• In a heavy saucepan, combine the cocoa, butter, milk and sugar. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally until the mixture comes to a boil. Cook to the soft ball stage (234 to 240 degrees F, 112 to 115 degrees C). Remove from heat and beat by hand until the mixture becomes thick. Stir in the flour, beat until blended. Poke holes in the cake and frost while the cake and icing are still hot so the icing will penetrate. Let cool before serving.

HEALTHY - BLACK DEVILS FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 13x9x2-inch pan with vegetable oil spray. Dust with flour; shake off excess. In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cocoa powder and baking soda. Whisk in applesauce, buttermilk and vegetable oil.
• In a small saucepan, bring coffee to a boil over medium-high heat. Stir gently into batter.
• Mixture will be soupy. Pour into pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Serve warm or let cool completely.
• Servings: 20.

DEVILS FOOD CAKE WITH COOL WHIP FROSTING

Steps:

• 1. Set a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees... For 30mins ...Lightly butter two 9-inch round cake pans and or a bundt cake pan ( I used a bundt for mine)
• 2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. beat the butter at medium speed until smooth, about 2 minutes. Increase the speed to medium-high and slowly add the sugar. Continue beating until light and smooth, about 4 minutes.. Add the cocoa powder and vanilla and beat at medium speed for 1 minute more With the mixer running at medium-low speed, add the eggs, one at a time, beating for 1 minute between each addition.Combine the water and milk in a saucepan and bring just to a boil. Remove from the heat.
• 3. With the mixer at low speed, add the flour mixture, about a 1/4 cup at a time. Carefully pour the hot liquid into the batter. using a large rubber spatula, finish combining the batter until smooth. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pan.
• 4. FOR FROSTING.. 4 ounce box instant chocolate pudding mix, dry (vanilla if you want vanilla frosting) 1/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted 1 cup milk 8 ounces/225g Cool Whip mix the first three ingredients together until smooth and thick.. fold in cool whip frost cake.

MOMS DEVILS FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Make a hole in the sifted ingredients, add 4TBs Crisco...Pour 1C. BOILING water to which 1tsp Baking soda has been added into the ingredients. Mix but DO NOT beat, then add:
• 2. 1tsp Vanilla Extract 1 Beaten Egg
• 3. Mix in, but don't beat.
• 4. Bake 35~45min at 350^ Makes about 1 1/2 dozen cup cakes or small sheet cake. Double for 3 dozen cup cakes or large pan.

DEVILS FOOD CAKE/1948 VERSION

Steps:

• Mix water, cocoa and baking soda, let stand while preparing the rest of the ingredients.
• Cream butter and sugar, beat in eggs, add half the flour and half the milk beat well.
• Add the cocoa mixture and remaining flour and milk and vanilla.
• Bake in two greased and floured cake pans, at 350°F for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
• Frost with icing:2 cups powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/2 to 3/4 cup milnot.
• Beat milnot canned milk into powdered sugar a little at a time until spreadable; add vanilla.

RED DEVILS FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly.
• 2. Add well beaten eggs to which salt has been added and mix well
• 3. Dissolve soda in boiling water.
• 4. Sift cocoa with flour, add flour mixture alternately with sour cream.
• 5. Add soda water and mix well
• 6. Bake in two greased layer cake pans 35 minutes in a 375 degree oven.

HOT WATER DEVILS FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Cream together shortening, cocoa, sugar and eggs.
• 2. add flour, salt, buttermilk with soda, and baking powder. Mix well; then add 1 cup hot water and 1 teaspoon vanilla. This is a soft batter. Bake in two 8 inch layers pays well greased and floured or in a sheet cake. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Frost with your favorite frosting.