Grandma Maurine’s Red Devils Food Cake Recipe, Extra Moist Homemade Chocolate cake recipe
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My grandmother was known for her baking. There are stories that professional bakers came from miles around just to learn a few tricks from her. I never had the luxury to learn from her, but at least we still have her recipes. And let me tell you; I made this devils food cake recipe the first time for my daughter’s birthday when she turned 2. It is DIVINE! It has since been requested for each birthday of my kids since! It is extremely moist and very delicious! Not too rich and not too bland. This Devils Food Cake recipe puts all those box mixes to shame! And to my surprise, it isn’t hard to make at all!
Devils Food Cake Recipe
Now you may laugh, as I know it’s been said there is no such thing as Red Devils Food Cake recipe, but that’s what Grandma called it. So we all call it red devils food cake! But in a culinary sense, it really is just a great devils food cake recipe!
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sour milk (you can use buttermilk, but I used regular milk with 1 Tbsp vinegar mixed in it)
- 2 cups flour (cake flour makes a wonderful texture)
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 3/4 cup boiling water with 2 tsp baking soda mixed in
Directions:
- Beat shortening, sugar and eggs until light and fluffy.
- Add salt, milk, flour and cocoa and mix well.
- Combine boiling water and baking soda.
- add one teaspoon at a time of the Water/baking soda mixture to batter while mixing.
- Grease and Flour cake pan before filling with batter
- Fill cake pans 1/2 full. Any more and it will overflow as the cake bakes.
- Bake 350 degrees 30 minutes or until done in center.
- (cupcakes bake for 20 minutes or until done is center)
- Cool on rack.
Makes one 9 x 13 rectangle or two 8-9 inch round cakes or 1 8-9 in round and 24 cupcakes.
Red Devils Food Cake Recipe Tips:
- To check if the cake is done, use a clean toothpick and insert into center of cake. if it comes out clean the cake is done!
- Let cool fully before frosting (otherwise it melts the frosting)
- For decorated cake (outside of pan) let cool in pan for 15 minutes and then remove from pan to finish cooling.
If you like our recipes, be sure to try out the frosting recipe to go along with the cake! Cream Cheese Frosting
Yield:
Grandma Maurine's Red Devils Food Cake Recipe, Extra Moist Homemade Chocolate cake recipe
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
30 minutes
Total Time
40 minutes
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sour milk (you can use buttermilk, but I used regular milk with 1 Tbsp vinegar mixed in it)
- 2 cups flour (cake flour makes a wonderful texture)
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 3/4 cup boiling water with 2 tsp baking soda mixed in
Instructions
- Beat shortening, sugar and eggs until light and fluffy.
- Add salt, milk, flour and cocoa and mix well.
- Combine boiling water and baking soda.
- Add one teaspoon at a time of the Water/baking soda mixture to batter while mixing.
- Grease and Flour cake pan before filling with batter
- Fill cake pans 1/2 full. Any more and it will overflow as the cake bakes.
- Bake 350 degrees 30 minutes or until done in center.
- For cupcakes bake for 20 minutes or until done in the center.
- Cool on rack.
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Hi! I pinned your Grandma’s recipe for later use. My daughter is the big party planner in my family. She is featured in “Catch my party.” , Vicki
Oh this looks so good! Maybe I’ll this instead of the red velvet recipe I found for my friends birthday. Thanks for sharing, and great job!
I’ll have to try this out. It’s my wife’s favorite flavor.
It is difficult to tell from the picture but does it really come out red? Regardless, it looks DELICIOUS! My mouth is watering…
This is seriously yummy! You can really tell from your pics just how rich, moist and delicious it is!
This looks amazing, so very moist! A great treat with ice cream I am sure. I would love to make this, this weekend, I hope it comes out as nice as your did.
I love devils food cake! I am going to go check out your cream cheese frosting recipe too!
Gosh that just looks so darn good. Especially with that scoop of ice cream, too! YUM!!
That cake looks so good! I have never even heard of Red Devil’s food cake before, I have been missing out!
Ooh, that sounds so good! Im there for anything chocolate!
This looks delicious! You’re so lucky to have your grandmother’s recipes. My mom’s recipes disappeared after she passed away. I would give anything to have another slice of peanut butter cake like she used to make.
This cake sounds delicious. I love to bake cakes.
Oh my, this looks totally amazing. I am drooling over here! The cake looks unbelievably moist! I am totally making this soon! I love family recipes, so thank you for sharing this one 😉
This looks heavenly. I applaud you and your grandmother. I’ve never made a cake from scratch. Looking at the recipe though, I think I could do it! 🙂 Will have to put it on my bucket list! 🙂
That chocolate just looks so decadent and rich. My gosh I want to dig my fork in NOW!
I love devils food cake! One of
My faves. Although truthfully if it’s cake and chocolate is involved i will probably like it
Oh my goodness this sounds delish! I love that you call it what your grandma called – even if others say it doesn’t exist! 🙂
Yum, that sounds delicious. I love me some cake!
I bake my cakes from scratch. It’s been a long time since I’ve made devi’s food. I need to again!
That looks great! I love the added touch of the icing and ice cream!
The last few times I’ve made red devil’s cake, it was from a box – I really need to make my own again! Thanks for the recipe!!
I bake my own cakes from a mix usually. This cake looks amazing!
This recipe sounds delicious! I love devils food cake!
The rest of the story… we have this and others of Grandmothers recipes because mother would watch Grandma cook and stop her at each ingredient to estimate how much she was using. Grandma never measured anything, and everything turned out wonderful. For this cake she would make a real fudge frosting, but no one was ever able to duplicate that. Mother tried many times, but it never turned out. My wife makes a simple chocolate frosting that I love.
Thanks for sharing that Eric! Dad just told me the story last time I was up there. It was fun to hear it from his perspective.