Devil's Food

Devil's Food

Ingredients:

• 4 oz Unsweetened Chocolate
• 1 c Sugar
• 1/2 c Buttermilk or sour milk
• 1/2 c Cake Flour; sifted
• 1 1/2 ts Baking Powder
• 3/4 ts Soda
• 1/2 ts Salt
• 1/2 c Butter or shortening
• 3/4 c Sugar
• 3 Eggs; well beaten
• 1 c Buttermilk or sour milk
• 1 ts Vanilla

Instructions:

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 ( 350
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 Fudge Frosting. Or add
chopped nut meats to part of frosting and use as filling.