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Devils Food Cake
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sour milk
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- ½ cup cocoa
- 1 cup boiling water
Instructions
- Mix 2 cups sugar, 1 tsp salt and 1 cup shortening well.
- In a separate container, Mix 1 cup sour milk and 2 tsp baking soda until soda has been dissolved.
- Add 2 eggs, then the sour milk with baking soda.
- Add sifted 2 cups flour, ½ cup cocoa & 1 cup boiling water
- (no instruction in original recipe but put in cake pan.)
- Bake at 350℉ for about 45 minutes
Devil’s food cake is a moist, rich chocolate layer cake. Because of differing recipes and changing ingredient availability over the 20th century, it is difficult to precisely qualify what distinguishes devil’s food from the more standard chocolate cake. However, it traditionally has more chocolate than a regular chocolate cake, making it darker in color and with a heavier texture. Devil’s food cake was invented in the United States in the early 20th century.
-via Wikipedia
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