Do I know who Roxie is? No I do not, and that’s not from lack of trying to find out! The recipes I have came from a mix from both my aunt and my grandma, and I have discovered that a few came from friends or co-workers of my grandma, who passed away many years ago. But regardless, thank you to Roxie, whoever she is, for the delicious cake! I didn’t frost it and it really didn’t need it. If I was going to make it as a layer cake for a birthday, it would definitely hold up well to some icing.
My seven year old granddaughter Sophie was visiting for the weekend, and I gave her a selection of recipes to try. She is a certified chocoholic, so she chose for us to make the chocolate cake.
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Let’s talk about the ingredients first. I also did research into what 1/4 cake of baker’s chocolate meant. Good old Google only came up with a million “cake” recipes, so that wasn’t helpful no matter how I tried to word things. So I looked up other devil’s food recipes and most of them had a pretty significant amount of chocolate, so I chose to use the entire bar (4 ounces) of baking chocolate. I used Ghiradelli 100% Cacao Unsweetened Chocolate
The first thing we did was melted the butter and chocolate together. The recipe says to do it over a bowl of hot water, but I didn’t see that until later so I just did it in the microwave. I microwaved for 30 seconds at 50% power until it was melted.
We then added the sugar
Stirred together
Add the eggs
This was a fun time. Sophie has chickens at home so she’s used to cracking eggs. Well, the eggs I had purchased had really, really tough shells so although we had some egg land on the floor, most of them made it into the bowl.
The recipe called for alternating adding flour and milk, which is pretty typical for a cake recipe, but Sophie thought that was very silly. She just wanted to add it all at the same time and stir it all up. In the end, I’m not sure that it made that much of a difference, but we did follow the recipe and alternated.
Next we added the rest of the things: vanilla, hot water, and baking soda.
Got it all stirred up and poured into a greased and floured 13x9x2 inch pan
Couldn’t keep her away from the batter. Plus she was wearing some of it.
Baked in a 325 degree oven for 40-45 minutes, until a toothpick came out clean.
I sprinkled the finished cake with powdered sugar just to give it a little visual interest.
It was quite tasty, we didn’t wait for it to fully cool down because the smell was divine and made us all hungry. However it was very good even for the next few days, it stayed very moist for a while.
Roxie's Devil's Food Cake
Ingredients
- 4 ounces baking chocolate
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar: 1 white 1 brown
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sour milk (milk with a bit of added lemon juice or vinegar) or buttermilk
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons Vanilla
- 2 cups Flour
- 1 Tablespoon baking soda
- 1 cup boiling water
Directions
- Step 1 Melt butter and chocolate together over a bowl of hot water or in the microwave.
- Step 2 Add sugars, stir well.
- Step 3 Stir in eggs one at a time, beating each well.
- Step 4 Add a little flour then milk, alternating until all added
- Step 5 Add vanilla, water, and soda
- Step 6 Pour into greased and floured pan(s)
- Step 7 Bake at 325 degrees for 40-45 minutes
- Step 8 ”If real damp weather use not quite 1 cup of hot water”
