Devil's Food Cake
Ready In: 30 mins
Serves: 18
Yields: 2 cakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- 3⁄4 cup cocoa
- 1⁄3 cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 3 eggs
- 1⁄4 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups cake flour, sifted
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Heat milk in small pan until bubbles form around the edges. Remove from heat.
- Mix cocoa and white sugar together in a bowl. Slowly beat in warm milk. Let cool.
- Cream the butter with the brown sugar. Beat in the eggs, sour cream and vanilla. Add cocoa mixture.
- Mix remaining dry ingredients together and blend in to butter mixture. Don't overbeat.
- Turn in to two well-greased and floured 9 inch layer cake pans and bake 25-30 minutes, until cake shrinks slightly from sides of pans, and springs back when touched gently in the center.
- Cool on a rack for a few minutes, then turn out of pans on to rack.
- Wait until completely cool before frosting.
- See "7 Minute Frosting" for Easy Frosting Recipe.
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