devil's food cake
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of devil's food cake
1900–05, modeled on angel food cake
Example Sentences
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Food52's Resident Baking BFF describes this dessert as a single, tall devil's food cake topped with an almost equally tall mound of peppermint seven-minute frosting.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2022
With a few substitutions, you can turn that devil’s food cake into a chocolate cherry, German chocolate, grasshopper or toasted marshmallow cake.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2017
Paley will serve its regular brunch menu between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., along with some Easter specials including Peeps-inspired marshmallows and a Cadbury-inspired egg-shaped devil’s food cake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2017
I still remember how a slice of chocolate devil’s food cake, soggy with vanilla ice cream, tastes, before taking a bath in a cousin’s bathtub.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2016
We’d have hot chocolate by the fire, and slabs of devil’s food cake.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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