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Devil's Food Cake with Amaretto Frosting

Ingredients

Cake

  • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup shortening I use Spectrum non-hydrogenated
  • 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 eggs large
  • 1 1/3 cups cold water

Frosting

  • 1 cup salted butter softened
  • 1/3 cup amaretto liqueur
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/2 cup half and half
  • 4-5 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Cake

  1. In a medium bowl, sift together dry ingredients and set aide.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, beat shortening with an electric mixer on high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar and vanilla and beat until well combined. Add eggs one at a time. Alternate adding flour mixture and water and beat until combined.
  3. Grease and flour cake pans (four 6" pans, two 9" pans or one 9x13" pan) and line bottoms with parchment. Distribute batter evenly between pans and bake at 350 until a wooden toothpick comes out clean, 20-40 minutes, depending upon pan size.

Frosting

  1. Cream together all ingredients except powdered sugar. Gradually add powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Additional powdered sugar may be necessary to make icing pipeable.

Recipe Notes

Recipe and photos from Mayhem in the Kitchen!

Cake recipe adapted from Better Homes and Garden's New Cookbook