Red Devil’s Food Cake Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 ½ c. sugar
½ c. shortening
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
4 tbsp. Hershey’s cocoa
3 tbsp. strong cold coffee
1 tsp. red food coloring
1 ¼ tsp. baking soda
pinch of salt
2 C sifted cake flour (or 2 C minus 2 T of sifted regular flour)
1 C buttermilk (or sweet milk to which 1 t vinegar has been added and left to sit for 5 minutes)
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Directions:Beat together the sugar and shortening until fluffy. Add the eggs, vanilla, cocoa, coffee and food coloring and mix. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add the sifted ingredients alternately with the buttermilk starting and ending with flour. Divide between two 8” or 9” greased/floured cake pans. Bake at 350º until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (about 35 minutes). Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes and then turn out onto the rack to cool completely.
Frost with your favorite frosting. Mom used 1/2 recipe of the Whipped Cream Frosting for the center, frosted the top and sides with chocolate frosting and then decorated the top walnut halves. |
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Notes: This is a favorite of many family members and my personal favorite. She baked this cake many times for my birthday.
Mom was an expert at baking anything and reminds me of my first experience baking. Mom had given me a lesson or two on cake baking and I thought "I can do this on my own - it isn't that complicated." So, one day when I was home alone I got busy to make a surprise cake. I got the temperature adjusted on the old wood cook stove and I thought “this is so easy!”. Well, when the time was up I opened the oven and you never saw such a sorry looking mess. I took the "cake" outside and dumped it in the field by our house, cleaned up the kitchen and never said a word to anyone.
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