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devil's food cake

American  

noun

  1. a rich chocolate cake.


devil's food cake British  

noun

  1. a rich chocolate cake

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of devil's food cake

1900–05, modeled on angel food cake


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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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