Dessert Recipes - Devil's Food Cake Recipe

Ingredients                 

• 2 1/2 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour

• 1 3/4 cups sugar

• 1 3/4 tsp baking soda

• 1 tsp salt

• 2/3 cup shortening (at room temperature)

• 1 1/3 cups milk

• 1 tsp vanilla

• 2 eggs

• 3 squares Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate, melted and cooled

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Method:

1. Sift flour with sugar, soda, and salt. Stir shortening to soften. Add flour mixture, 1 cup milk, and vanilla; mix until flour is dampened.

2. Then beat 2 minutes at medium speed of electric mixer or 300 vigorous strokes by hand.

3. Add eggs, melted chocolate and remaining 1/3 cup milk; beat 1 minute longer with mixer or 150 strokes by hand. Pour into two greased and floured 9-inch layer pans.

4. Bake at 350°F about 35 minutes, until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pans; remove from pans and cool thoroughly on racks.

Alternate baking pans: This cake may also be baked at 350F in three 8-inch layer pans about 30 minutes or in a 13 x 9-inch pan about 40 minutes. Recipe may be doubled, if desired. If necessary, refrigerate part of the batter while first layers bake.