Red devils food cake
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | cup | Sifted cake flour |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 4 | tablespoons | Butter |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| ½ | cup | Buttermilk |
| 2 | Eggs, well beaten | |
| ½ | cup | Boiling water |
| 2 | ounces | Bitter chocolate |
| 1 | teaspoon | Soda |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
Directions
Sift flour, baking powder and salt 3 times. Cream butter and sugar.
Add well-beaten eggs to creamed mixture. Then add the flour and milk alternately to the butter-sugar-egg mixture. Melt chocolate with boiling water over low heat; add soda and stir well. Cool chocolate before adding it to the batter. Then stir in vanilla. Grease cake pans and line them with waxed paper (two 9 inch pans). Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. (Batter will be thin.) Frost with vanilla icing.
SOURCE: National Cooking Echo 04/19/90 Contributed to the echo by: Ellen Cleary Originally from: "The Charlotte Cookbook", by Jr. League of Charlotte, N. C.