Devils Food Cake/1948 Version

Name: Devils Food Cake/1948 Version
Ingredients: 12 cup cocoa; 12 cup cold water; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 23 cup butter; 2 eggs; 2 12 cups flour; 34 cup sour milk or 34 cup buttermilk; 1 12 cups sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla

9 ingredients

6 steps

Ingredients

12 cup cocoa
12 cup cold water
2 teaspoons baking soda
23 cup butter
2 eggs
2 12 cups flour
34 cup sour milk or 34 cup buttermilk
1 12 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

1

Mix water, cocoa and baking soda, let stand while preparing the rest of the ingredients.
2

Cream butter and sugar, beat in eggs, add half the flour and half the milk beat well.
3

Add the cocoa mixture and remaining flour and milk and vanilla.
4

Bake in two greased and floured cake pans, at 350F for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
5

Frost with icing:2 cups powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/2 to 3/4 cup milnot.
6

Beat milnot canned milk into powdered sugar a little at a time until spreadable; add vanilla.