Devil’s food cake

Name: Devil’s food cake
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 250 g plain flour; 150 g butter (at room temperature), plus extra for greasing; icing sugar for dusting; juice of ½ lemon; 100 g dark chocolate (at least 55% cocoa solids); 150 ml whole milk; 3 large free-range eggs, beaten; ½ teaspoon baking powder; 250 g dark muscovado sugar; 100 ml fresh orange juice; 1½ level teaspoons bicarbonate of soda; 3 tablespoons warm water; 100 g caster sugar; 200 g fresh cranberries

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Orchards in the Oasis

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 2010

About

Airy, yet rich and moist, with a sharp cranberry filling to contrast the chocolate, this cake can be served for tea or as a pudding. I prefer a dusting of icing sugar to the usual coating of white American frosting.

Ingredients

100 g dark chocolate (at least 55% cocoa solids)
3 tablespoons warm water
250<

Americas
United States
Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Butter two 22-24 cm sandwich tins and line the bottom of each with a buttered disc of baking parchment. Break the chocolate into small pieces and put into a bowl set over a pan of very hot but not boiling water. Add the 3