Velvet Devil's Food Layer Cake with Coffee Buttercream Frosting

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1994

Starting with a Velvet Devil's Food Cake, the author tests each ingredient to produce the best six chocolate cake recipes, from a sour cream layer cake to a low-fat, low-guilt variation.

SERVES12

TIME1¾ hours, plus 2 hours 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

While developing our devil’s food layer cake recipe we found very little difference between cakes baked with standard American cocoa and “Dutched” cocoa. We chose water over milk or buttermilk to moisten our cake batter, discovering that ca...

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