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Devil's Food Cake
Devil's Food Cake recipe (Red Velvet Cake) is a moist, airy, chocolate layer cake. This moist chocolate cake is considered a counterpart to the white or yellow angel food cake. Devil's food cake is chocolate-flavored, and is differentiated from other chocolate cakes by the use of more baking soda (sodium bicorbonate) which raises the PH level and makes the cake a deeper and darker mahogany color also earning the nickname Red Velvet Cake. Devil's food cake is more moist and airy than other chocolate cakes and often uses cocoa as opposed to chocolate for the flavor. This cake incorporates butter (or a substitute), egg whites, flour (while some chocolate cakes are flourless) and less egg than other chocolate cakes. Devil's food cake was introduced in the United States in the early 20th century with the recipe in print in 1905. One thing to take note is that most of today's sodium bicarbonate are made from processed cocoa lowering its PH value making cakes made with it less likely to turn velvet in colour unless of course colouring is added.

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Recipe
115 gm Unsalted Butter
250 gm Sugar
4 nos Whole Eggs
400 gm Soft Flour
500 ml Milk
10 gm Sodium Bicarbonate
150 gm Cocoa Powder
500 gm Ganache
Method
1) Cream butter and sugar together till creamy.
2) Add in eggs one by one and continue to cream till smooth.
3) Slowly pour in 1/2 the milk. Pouring in milk too fast may cause batter to split.
4) Mix in flour, cocoa powder and sodium bicarbonate.
5) Add in the remaining milk.and mix till batter is smooth.
6) Line botom of an 8" (20cm) round cake ring with grease proof paper.
7) Pour batter into ring till 3/4 full. Bake in oven at 180C (356F) for 45 minutes till inserted toothpick comes out clean.
8) Leave cake aside until completely cool before dividing into 3 pcs.
9) Place first layer of cake on cakeboard and coat with chocolate ganache on top.
10) Cover with second layer of cake and coat with chocolate ganache on top.
11) Place the third layer of cake on top and coat the whole cake throughly with chocolate ganache. (Refer to video above on how to coat a cake).
12) Decorate as per your liking.

Recipe makes 2 X 20cm (6") Round Cake Ring
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