Devil's Food Cake Recipe
A delicious chocolate cake perfect for those with a sweet tooth. With a powerful flavor and extra juiciness.
Ingredients
For the sponge cake
- 230 g Flour
- 290 ml Milk
- 240 ml Boiling water
- 150 g Butter (at room temperature)
- 3 Eggs
- 65 g Cocoa powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Sachet Yeast powder
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1 tsp Salt
- 350 g Sugar
- 1/2 Cup Coffee (if it can be freshly brewed, the better)
For the topping
- 200 g Icing Sugar
- 40 g Cocoa powder
- 70 g Butter
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 100 ml Cream
Instructions
For the sponge cake
- Let's start by making the sponge cake. First, in a bowl, we are going to mix (previously sifted) the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Mix well and set aside.
- In a pot, bring the water to boil, when it starts to boil, add the cocoa and mix well. Until it dissolves completely.
- In another bowl, beat the butter, which should be at room temperature, with the sugar. Beat well until the two ingredients are combined.Add the eggs, one at a time while continuing to beat. Beat well until the eggs are integrated before adding the next egg.
- In the same bowl as the butter and eggs, add a little vanilla extract and the cocoa that we had dissolved in the water.Also add the milk and coffee and mix well.
- When you have a homogeneous dough, start incorporating the dry ingredients. Add them in three times. Incorporate a third of the dry ingredients mixture, and mix well. Do this until all the flour is incorporated.
- We put the dough to bake in a mold previously greased with butter and flour. Preheat the oven to 180ºC, and once preheated, bake our cake for 40-45 minutes. Check from time to time so that it does not burn.After this time, check that it is well done by pricking it with a toothpick. If it comes out dry, it is ready
- Once baked, allow to cool and unmold.
We continue with the coverage.
- In a bowl, mix well the cocoa powder, which you will have sieved, with the powdered sugar. Add the butter in ointment and mix well (the texture will be like crumbs, you will not get a homogeneous dough. Do not worry, it is like that).
- Continue adding the vanilla extract and cream little by little, while mixing. Mix well until you get a spreadable dough.
- Once the frosting is ready, we begin to assemble the cake. First, we will cut our cake in two, with a horizontal cut, as straight as possible. If you have a cake cutter, it will be a great help.
- Cover one of the sponge cakes with the frosting, spreading it well with a spatula. Cover with the second cake and repeat the process, covering it completely with the frosting. Also the sides.Your Devil's Food Cake is ready!
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