Devil’s Food Cake

The devil’s food cake is a light and airy chocolate cake with a rich and decadent chocolate ganache frosting. The cake likely gained its demonic sounding name from the perceived “sinfulness” of indulging in its rich chocolate flavor. It also seems that the cake was appropriately named to serve as the counterpart of its close relative, the angel food cake. The angel food cake predates the devil’s food cake, and while both cakes have a light and airy consistency, the angel cake is white in co