Devils Food Cake Recipe

How to make it

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• Adjust the rack to the center of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees
• Butter three 8-inch round layer pans and dust the bottoms with dry bread crumbs.
• Melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler over hot water on a moderate heat. Set aside once melted.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
• Cream the butter.
• Add the vanilla and sugar and beat another minute or two.
• Beat the eggs in, one at a time, and scrape the mixing bowl with a spatula between additions. Continue to beat for a minute or two after the last egg is added.
• Beat in the melted chocolate.
• On the mixer's lowest speed add half of the flour mixture. Then add the buttermilk and then the rest of the flour. Scrape down as needed.
• Gradually beat in the boiling water.
• This is a thin batter - don't worry.
• Divide it between the three prepared pans.
• Bake for 25 minutes or until the tops spring back when touched and the cake starts to pull away from the sides of the pan.
• Cool the layers on racks for five minutes. Then invert the pans on the racks to remove the cakes and then invert again so they are right-side up.
• When the layers are completely cool ice with 7-Minute Icing