Basic Devil's Food Cake Recipe- without frosting

Devils Food Cake

Ingredients

All purpose flour- 1 and 3/4 cups

Baking powder- 2 tsp

Baking soda- 3/4 tsp

Salt- 3/4 tsp

Unsalted butter- 11 tbsp

Sugar granulated- 1 and 1/2 cups

Cadburys cocoa powder- 2/3 cup

Egg- 2 nos

Vanilla essence- 1 tsp

Warm water- 1 and 1/3 cups

Method

Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.

Beat butter in a bowl until creamy with help of electric beater, add sugar, cocoa powder, eggs and vanilla essence one by one to the butter, beat until well blended.

At low speed add both flour mixture and warm water one by one to the butter mixture, mix on low speed for 30 secs.

Pre heat oven at 325 F, grease 9 x 3 inch pan.

Pour prepared cake batter to the pan.

Bake cake in the center rack of the oven for 45 mins, bake until a knife comes out clean when inserted in the center of baked cake.

Cool on wired rack and cut Devils Food Cake into desired slices.

Devils Food Cake- Basic recipe

Recipe Courtesy

The Cake Book

Tish Boyle