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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

Guests snacked on carvings from a whole roasted Berkshire suckling pig and concocted their own tacos at a Mexican food station before dining on short rib or cod, and devil’s food cake with vanilla buttercream.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2019

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

The ecumenical menu might include a raw seafood medley with sea urchin, a Moroccan-tinged lamb and the Yodel dessert, a supersize rolled devil’s food cake.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 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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