Devil's Food Cake
Source of Recipe
The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook
Recipe Introduction
An easy, fun and delicious recipe to teach the kids how to make cake from scratch.
List of Ingredients
Water, Cocoa, Shortening, Sugar, Eggs, Vanilla, All-Purpose Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Salt, Buttermilk or Sour Milk (see bottom of recipe for homemade sour milk)Recipe
Preheat Oven to 350F.
In a small bowl, pour
1/2 c. boiling water
over
1/2 c. cocoa (unsweetened)
Blend and allow to cool.
In a large bowl, cream
2/3 c. shortening (regular, not butter)
and then add
1 1/2 c. sugar (granulated)
and beat until light and fluffy. Add
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla (real)
and beat well.
In a seperate bowl blend
2 1/4 c. All-Purpose Flour (bleached or unbleached)
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
together.
Alternately add the dry ingredients and
3/4 c. buttermilk (see below)
to the shortening/sugar mixture stirring just enough to combine them. Gently blend in the cooled cocoa and water.
Bake in a greased, 9 x 11 in. baking pan for 40 to 50 min. I used a "theme" cake pan (Thomas or Pooh) and it worked just fine. I also use canola oil to grease the pan. It works much better than anything else I've ever used.
Let set 10 min. Cake is delicious warm with just a sprinkling of powdered sugar. Or you can cool it and ice it as is traditionally done.
+++++++
Buttermilk/sour milk recipe.
If you don't have buttermilk on hand it is simple enough to make sour milk yourself. You most likely will have the two ingredients I prefer, lemon juice and pasteurized milk.
In a 1 c. measuring cup put
1 tsp. lemon juice
fill the rest of the cup with the milk. Works like a charm and has a great flavor too. There are other recipes for this that include vinegar and even powdered milk, but this is my fave.
+++++++
I hope you enjoy this cake as much as we do.
God Bless. :-)
|
|
member logon
