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Red Devil's Food Cake
Nb persons: 12
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| Preheat oven to 350 | |
| 1 c | water |
| 3/4 c | butter |
| 1/2 c | brown sugar |
| 1/2 c | white sugar |
| 1 oz square | unsweetened chocolate |
| 1 tsp | instant espresso coffee powder |
| 1 1/2 c | white sugar |
| 1/2 tsp | salt |
| 1 tsp | baking soda |
| 1/4 tsp | baking powder |
| 1/2 c | unsweetened cocoa powder |
| 2 | eggs,, (room temp, float them in a cup of hot water if you forgot to take them out of frig night before) |
| 2 tsp | vanilla extract |
| 3 c | cake flour |
Combine water, butter, white sugar and brown sugar in a small pan on stovetop. Break square of chocolate into two parts and add to pan. Turn to Medium High and heat mixture, stirring frequently, until butter melts. Continue to stir until mixture is smooth and chocolate has melted. Pull pan off heat and add espresso. Stir until it dissolves. Let mixture cool while you start rest of cake. Prepare two 9 inch round cake pans by spraying with bakers joy ( cooking spray with flour in it). Tear off two sheets of parchment paper slightly larger than bottom of cake pan. Stack parchment paper, place one cake pan on top, and trace around bottom with pencil or pen. Staying inside the mark, cut out the tracing. Fit paper circles inside bottom of prepared pans, spray parchment paper with baking spray.
NOTE: Easier to use stand mixer.
Measure out 1 1/2 cups of sugar. Add about a third of it to mixing bowl ( just eyeball it). Add salt, soda, and baking powder. Turn mixer on LOW. Let it run for 30 secs or so. Add second third of sugar to bowl, turn mixer on LOW again and mix for another thirty seconds. Add cocoa powder to bowl. Mix on LOW for 30 secs or so. Pour in final third of sugar, turn mixer on LOW and mix for full minute. With mixer still running on LOW, add 1 egg and mix thoroughly. Add 2 nd egg and mix thoroughly. With mixer still running add vanilla and mix thoroughly. Turn off mixer.
If chocolate and butter mixture has cooled, turn on mixer to MED and slowly pour half of mixture into bowl. Mix thoroughly then turn off mixer. Add half of flour to bowl, turn mixer on LOW and mix. With mixer still running, add other half of chocolate and butter mixture to bowl, pouring slowly and mixing thoroughly. Shut off mixer. Add rest of flour to bowl. Turn mixer on LOW and mix everyone until well incorporated. Increase mixer speed to MED and mix for a full minute.
Take bowl from mixer and give batter a good stir by hand, making sure to scrape down sides of bowl. When well mixed, divide evenly between two cake pans. Bake at 350 for 20 to 25 mins or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. To make cupcakes cook for 15 minutes in muffin pan. Remove pan from oven and cool completely on wire rack.
When ready to frost cake, turn one layer upside down on cake plate so flat side is up. Use Fudgy Frosting between layers. Position second cake layer rounded side up on top of first layer. Now frost sides and top.
Yield: 12 servings
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