Devil’s Food Cake

Name: Devil’s Food Cake
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 55 g/2 oz soft brown sugar; 115 g/4 oz golden syrup; 4 tbsp milk; ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; a small pinch of salt; 225 g/8 oz self-raising flour; 115 g/4 oz unsalted butter; 1 egg; 6 drops of pure vanilla essence (not flavouring); 225 g/8 oz icing sugar; 4 tbsp water; 225 g/8 oz granulated sugar; 25 g/1oz best plain chocolate; 1 egg white; 115 g/4 oz butter; 115 g/4 oz best plain chocolate

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1996

About

Why this is called Devil’s Food Cake I cannot imagine, far too good for the devil who gets the best tunes already according to Charles Wesley. Perhaps, in the words of David Garrick, it is because ‘Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks’. Anyway it is devilishly good.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz butter
115 g/4

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian
England

Method

Grease and line 2 sandwich tins that are 20 cm/8 in across.

In a saucepan melt the butter, chocolate, syrup and sugar, stirring regularly (do