Chocolate devil’s food cake from Zoë Bakes Cakes: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Layers, Bundts, Loaves, and More (page 125) by Zoë François

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Accompaniments: Cream cheese frosting

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    Can substitute brandy for rum, and the book’s “Cream cheese frosting” for the “Chocolate frosting” called for in this recipe.

  • anya_sf on December 19, 2021

    Easy to make. My 8" layers took 40 min to bake, at which point the tester still came out with some (dry-looking) crumbs, but the cakes were pulling away from the sides, so I figured they were done. Perhaps I didn't tap the pans firmly enough to remove air bubbles, but the cakes domed a lot in the center and had several large air pockets, although the frosting hid that. Lacking enough chocolate for the chocolate frosting, I made the chocolate buttercream, which was not a good choice as it was too sweet for this already sweet cake. Overall, the cake was moist and fairly chocolatey, but I prefer Ina Garten's Beatty's chocolate cake.

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