Best ever devil's food cake
12 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | All-purpose flour |
| ⅔ | cup | Unsweetened cocoa powder |
| 1¼ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ⅔ | cup | Butter or margarine, |
| At room temperature | ||
| 1⅔ | cup | Sugar |
| 3 | larges | Eggs |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
| 1½ | cup | Milk |
| Chocolate Frosting, follows | ||
| Garnish: | ||
| Chocolate curls | ||
Directions
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.