Devil's Food Cake
"Easy Devil's Food Cake"
photo by Breezytoo
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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2 cakes
- Serves:
- 18
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.
Questions & Replies
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Can the sour cream be replaced by something else. Can the sour cream be faculatif?
Reviews
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We love this! Love chocolate, love cake! This is a nice moist cake and your frosting recipe Recipe#313613 goes very well with it! I did use regular flour as I had no cake flour on hand, but it didn't hurt the outcome at all. Thanks for sharing your recipe! :) Made for PAC Fall 08 -
good cake
