A devil’s food cake this dark, rich, and moist?

It’s sinfully good.

It’s so good it’s sinfulit couldn’t possibly be otherwise!

Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake sliced and ready to serve

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It’s dark, rich, fluffy, and delicious.

Learn how to make Devil’s Food Cake.

(Traditional chocolate cake is made with melted chocolate.)

Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake ingredients

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Thaw at room temperature for at least an hour before frosting.

Ingredients

Cake:

Cooking spray

2cupsall-purpose flour(8 1/2 oz.)

2cupsgranulated sugar

3/4cupunsweetened cocoa(about 2 1/2 oz.)

Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake sliced and ready to serve with a glass of milk

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1/2cupwhole buttermilk

1tsp.vanilla extract

Directions

Prepare oven and cake pans:

Preheat oven to 350F.

Coat 2 (9-inch) round cake pans with cooking spray.

Line bottoms of pans with parchment paper; coat parchment with cooking spray.

Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake preparing the pans

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Add flour mixture to bowl; beat with mixer at low speed until well blended, about 1 minute.

Gradually add hot coffee, beating constantly at low speed (batter will be thin).

Add Cake batter to pans:

Divide batter evenly between prepared cake pans.

Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake whisking together the dry ingredients

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Cool Cake layers:

Cool cakes in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes.

Run a thin knife around outside edge of each cake; carefully invert cakes onto wire racks.

Peel off and discard parchment paper.

Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake beating together the eggs and buttermilk

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Cool cakes completely, 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Arrange other cake layer on top; spread remaining frosting over top and sides of cake.

Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake beating the dry ingredients into the buttermilk mixture

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Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake adding the coffee to the cake batter

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Southern LIving Devil’s Food Cake dividing the batter between the pans

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Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake after baking the layers

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Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake layers out of the pan

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Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake mixing the frosting until fluffy

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Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake spreading the frosting on the cake layer

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Southern Living Devil’s Food Cake decorated and ready to serve

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