- prep: 1 hr
- cook: 0 hr
- total: 1 hr
Summary
In name alone, a devil's food cake is an obvious choice for a Halloween dessert. This one will far exceed your expectations of deep chocolaty naughtiness hidden under a fluff of espresso-tinged frosting. (If your trick-or-treaters are too young to embrace the slightly adult bitterness the coffee flavor adds, feel free to substitute a couple of teaspoons of good old vanilla extract.) Have some fun with a very tasty spiderweb—you'll want to eat it rather than shriek and brush it off.
Ingredients
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup boiling-hot water
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch process)
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups packed dark brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs, warmed in very warm water 10 minutes
- 3 large egg whites
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 6 tablespoons water
- 1 1/2 tablespoons instant espresso powder (optional; see cooks' note, below)
- Equipment: 3 (9- by 2-inch) round cake pans; a pastry bag with writing tip (slightly less than 1/8 inch); a handheld electric mixer
Instructions
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Nutrition

- Servings Per Recipe: 8
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 919 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 33 g 51.33%
- Saturated Fat: 18 g 88.32%
- Trans Fat: 1 g %
- Cholesterol: 107 mg 35.68%
- Sodium: 583 mg 24.3%
- Calcium: 69 mg 6.9%
- Potassium: 359 mg 10.25%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 3 mg 17.87%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 133 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 3 g 10.86%
- Sugar: 103 g
- Protein: 27 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 1 g
- Vitamin A 9.87%
- Vitamin C 0%
- Vitamin D 1.94%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
- Exchange - Fat5
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs7
- Exchange - Starch2
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat3
- Exchange - Alcohol0
- MyPlate - Grain Total2 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total3 oz-eq