Devil’s Food Sheet Cake with Sea Foam Frosting

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    16

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Vintage Baker: More Than 50 Recipes from Butterscotch Pecan Curls to Sour Cream Jumbles

By Jessie Sheehan

Published 2018

  • About

Many of my booklets feature devil’s food cake with sea foam frosting. Popularity aside, I’d have jumped at the chance to make anything topped with sea foam frosting, as the name alone is so enticing. I took the Rich Devil’s Food Cake recipe from 11 Famous Recipes—Hershey’s Cocoa (1959) and turned it into a one-bowl chocolate cake—my favorite and super-easy to make. I used oil instead of shortening for moistness and added espresso powder to amp up the