Best Ever Devil's Food Cake

Title:
Best Ever Devil's Food Cake

Yield:
12 Servings

Categories:
Cakes,
Chocolate




Ingredients:





     2 c  All-purpose flour


   2/3 c  Unsweetened cocoa powder


 1 1/4 ts Baking soda


   1/4 ts Baking powder


   2/3 c  Butter or margarine,


          At room temperature


 1 2/3 c  Sugar


     3 lg Eggs


     1 ts Vanilla extract


 1 1/2 c  Milk


          Chocolate Frosting, follows


          Garnish:


          Chocolate curls






 Adjust oven racks to divide oven into thirds. Heat oven to 350'F. Grease


 three 8-inch layer-cake pans. Line bottoms with waxed and grease paper.


 Sprinkle in flour and rotate pans to coat bottoms and sides. Shake out


 excess. Mix the first 5 ingredients until well blended. Beat butter, sugar,


 eggs and vanilla in a large bowl with electric mixer until fluffy.


 Gradually stir in flour mixture alternately with milk until just


 blendedPour into prepared pans, about 2 cups in each. Stagger pans on oven


 racks and bake, switching position of pans once to ensure even layers, 20


 to 25 minutes or until pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in


 pans on wire racks 10 minutes.  Invert cakes on racks, remove pans an peel


 off paper.  Turn cakes right side up and cool completely. fill and frost


 with Chocolate Frosting.  garnish with chocolate curls and a dusting of


 confectioners'sugar. Submitted By JOPETE@ATLAS.ODYSSEE.NET On MON, 4 DEC


 1995 175525 -0500


 


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