Devil's Food Cake Recipe (2024)

Devilish Devil’s Food Cake

Cocoa 1 1/2 cups

Sugar 4 1/2 cups

Boiling Water 4 1/2 cups

Soy Oil 1 1/2 cups

Eggs 6

Vanilla 3 1/2 tsp

Flour 6 cups

Salt 1 tsp

Baking Soda 2 heaping tsp.

1. Preheat oven to 275. This will cook low and long.

2. Sift cocoa and sugar into a bowl.

3. Add boiling water and mix with whip on low for 3 minutes.

4. Add oil and eggs. Mix on medium for 3 minutes.

5. Add vanilla and mix until combined.

6. Sift dry ingredients into a separate bowl and mix. Add to liquid mixture and mix for 3 minutes on medium. Scrape bowl twice in between mixing. The batter will be runny.

7. Divide mixture between pans. This amount provides enough batter for two 9″ pans and one 6″.

8. Bake at 275 for 1 1/2 hours +. The recipe always seems to take forever to cook, and I’m constantly checking it. Glance at an hour and then keep going. It’s ready when it springs back to your touch or a toothpick comes out clean.

Corban helped me every step along the way.

OK – Now onto the colossal error. I said in Cake Making 101 that one of the biggest mistakes beginning bakers make is not not follow the recipe EXACTLY. I don’t know how I did it, but I grabbed the bread flour instead of the normal flour. Bread flour has a higher protein content, so the chemistry gets all messed up when you substitute. The result was a cake that began to crumble as I took it out of the pan. The edges fell apart making it unusable for my purpose. So, I had to bake another cake. However, I claimed to make lemonade out of this disaster, and here’s what I did.