the only chocolate cake recipe you ll ever need devil s food

🥘 Ingredients

• • all-purpose flour
• • salt
• • baking powder
• • baking soda
• • unsweetened cocoa powder
• • sugar
• • vegetable oil
• • hot coffee
• • milk
• • eggs
• • vanilla
• • butter
• • shortening

📝 Instructions

1. 1 preheat oven to 325f
2. 2 in a large mixing bowl , sift together dry ingredients
3. 3 add oil , coffee and milk and mix at medium speed for 2 minutes
4. 4 add eggs and vanilla and beat 2 more minutes
5. 5 expect batter to be thin
6. 6 pour into a 9" x 13" greased and floured pan or 2- 9" round pans
7. 7 bake 9 x 13 pan for about 45 minutes or 9" pans for about 30 minutes
8. 8 cool in pans for about 15 minutes and then cool completely on racks
9. 9 while cake is cooling make the icing: combine the milk and flour in a saucepan and cook over low heat until thick , whisking constantly
10. 10 cover and refrigerate until chilled
11. 11 in a medium bowl , beat butter , shortening , sugar and vanilla until creamy
12. 12 add chilled milk and flour mixture and beat for 10 minutes
13. 13 frost cooled cake and enjoy ! the frosting sounds intimidating , but it is worth it ! by the way , for some reason , we prefer this cake chilled , right out of the refrigerator
14. 14 the rich chocolate and cool frosting just seem to taste best this way