Red devils food cake

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1½ cup Sifted cake flour
1½ teaspoon Baking powder
½ teaspoon Salt
4 tablespoons Butter
1 cup Sugar
½ cup Buttermilk
2 Eggs, well beaten
½ cup Boiling water
2 ounces Bitter chocolate
1 teaspoon Soda
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Directions

Sift flour, baking powder and salt 3 times. Cream butter and sugar.

Add well-beaten eggs to creamed mixture. Then add the flour and milk alternately to the butter-sugar-egg mixture. Melt chocolate with boiling water over low heat; add soda and stir well. Cool chocolate before adding it to the batter. Then stir in vanilla. Grease cake pans and line them with waxed paper (two 9 inch pans). Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. (Batter will be thin.) Frost with vanilla icing.

SOURCE: National Cooking Echo 04/19/90 Contributed to the echo by: Ellen Cleary Originally from: "The Charlotte Cookbook", by Jr. League of Charlotte, N. C.

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