Martha Washington's Devil's Food
Recipe
- Title:
- Martha Washington's Devil's Food
- Categories:
- Cakes, Chocolate
- Yield:
- 1 servings
Ingredients
- 4 oz Unsweetened Chocolate
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 1 c Sugar
- 1/2 c Butter or shortening
- 1/2 c Buttermilk or sour milk
- 3/4 c Sugar
- 1/2 c Cake Flour; sifted
- 3
- Eggs; well beaten
- 1 1/2 ts Baking Powder
- 1 c Buttermilk or sour milk
- 3/4 ts Soda
- 1 ts Vanilla
Directions
- Melt chocolate over boiling water; add 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup buttermilk and stir over boiling water until sugar is dissolved.
- Cool.
- Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, and salt and sift together three times.
- Cream butter thoroughly add 3/4 cup sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and beat well.
- Add about 1/4 of flour mixture, mix thoroughly; add chocolate mixture and blend.
- Add remaining flour, alternately with buttermilk, a small amount at a time; beat very thoroughly after each addition.
- Add vanilla.
- Bake in greased 15x9x2- inch pan, in a moderate oven ( 35O degrees F.)
- 30 minutes, or until cake is done.
- When cold, trim edges, cut in half crosswise, and put together as a two-layer cake, matching edges carefully.
- Spread tops and sides with Martha Washington's Fudge Frosting (See recipe).
- Or add chopped nut meats to part of frosting and use as filling.
- This recipe has been adapted to modern measurements from Marthas Washington's own recipe.
- It is an excellent choice for February parties or for any occasion where a deluxe cake is desired.
Directions
- Kate Smith Collection, (as adapted from Martha Washington's recipe) Published 1940 by General Foods Corp.
- (Courtesy of Barb Day)
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