Deep, Dark Devil’s Food Cake

This is roughly patterned after our friend and author Flo Braker’s devil’s food cake recipe in The Simple Art of Perfect Baking, upon which there is no improving. We’ve used oil instead of butter, cutting back slightly on the amounts of fat and sugar. Because devil’s food cake traditionally doesn’t contain many eggs, it comes out successfully in a lowfat version. The deep cocoa flavor still gives it that devil’s