Devil's Food Cake With Chocolaty Dizzle Icing

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 3/4 cup unsweetened dutch-processed cocoa powder
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter (room temperature)
• 1 1/4 cups milk (room temperature)
• 3 large eggs (room temperature)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups chocolate icing
• 3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate baking squares or 3 (1 ounce) semi-sweet chocolate baking squares
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 -2 tablespoon milk (room temperature)

Recipe

• 1 devil's food cake directions.
• 2 preheat oven 325 degrees.
• 3 grease and flour bundt pan.
• 4 sift flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda together and set aside (or use a fork to blend well).
• 5 cream together sugar and butter using an electric mixer until light and fluffy (about 2 - 3 minutes).
• 6 add vanilla and blend.
• 7 add eggs 1 at a time mixing well after each egg.
• 8 add flour mixture and milk (1/3 at a time) mix well but do not over blend until mixture is wet. scrape down sides between each addition.
• 9 pour evenly into the bundt pan. drop on counter to remove any bubbles and bake 50 to 65 minutes until done by testing and tester coming out clean.
• 10 cool in bundt pan for 10 minutes on wire rack.
• 11 turn out on wire rack to continue cooling.
• 12 while cake is cooling make the chocolate icing.
• 13 chocolate icing:.
• 14 melt butter and chocolate baking squares in a saucepan.
• 15 remove from heat.
• 16 blend in vanilla.
• 17 blend in confectioner's sugar one cup at a time using a wire whisk (icing will be very thick after all the confectioner's sugar has been added).
• 18 add in milk one tablespoon at a time until you have the desired consistency.
• 19 drizzle as much (or as little) as you like on the cake.