Devils Food Cake
A delicious all chocolate cake with a delicious thich chocolate icing
Yield
16 servingsPrep
25 minCook
1 hrsReady
85 minTrans-fat Free
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup |
cake flour
|
|
| 1 | cup |
self-rising flour
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
bicarbonate
of soda |
* |
| ⅔ | cup |
cocoa powder
|
|
| 11/4 | cups |
sugar, superfine
|
|
| 125 | grams |
butter
sofened |
|
| 1 | cup |
milk
|
|
| 1 | cup |
sour cream
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
lightly beaten |
|
| ¾ | cup |
cream
whipped |
|
| ¾ | cup |
cream
whipped |
|
| 50 | grams |
dark chocolate
for the icing |
* |
| 25 | grams |
butter
for the icing |
|
| 3 | teaspoons |
sugar
for the icing |
|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 237 | ml |
cake flour
|
|
| 237 | ml |
self-rising flour
|
|
| 5 | ml |
bicarbonate
of soda |
* |
| 158 | ml |
cocoa powder
|
|
| 651 | ml |
sugar, superfine
|
|
| 125 | grams |
butter
sofened |
|
| 237 | ml |
milk
|
|
| 237 | ml |
sour cream
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
lightly beaten |
|
| 177 | ml |
cream
whipped |
|
| 177 | ml |
cream
whipped |
|
| 5E+1 | grams |
dark chocolate
for the icing |
* |
| 25 | grams |
butter
for the icing |
|
| 15 | ml |
sugar
for the icing |
|
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcious
- Brush a deep 20 cm round cake tin with oil
- sift flour, soda and cocoa powder into a large bowl
- Add sugar, butter, milk and sour cream; beat for 1 minute or untile combined
- Add eggs and beat at high for 4 minutes
- Pour into a baking tin and bake for an hour
- Leave in tin for 10 minutes until you turn onto a wire rack
TO MAKE THE ICING
- Combine chocolate and butter in a small heat proof bowl
- Stand bowl over a pot of boiling water and stir until melter
- gradually add icing sugar, stirring until icing is smooth
CAKE
- Cut in half horizontalyusing a serrated knife and spread cream on bottom layer
- Replace the top layer
- Spread icing on top of the cake
