Meaning of devil's-food cake | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“The color scheme was in black and orange, the class colors. The rooms were decorated in these colors and the refreshments were orange ice and black devil’s-food cake.”

“Devil’s-food cake, that great test⟳ of a cook’s skill, is one of her specialties.”

“If your devil’s-food cake is red in color instead of a rich dark brown, this means that you have⟳ used too much soda. It turns the cake red just as it turns biscuits yellow.”

“On a recent visit⟳ to France, I saw⟳ a magazine cover⟳ depicting a tomato with a burning fuse and “La Cuisine du Diable” spelled out in big bold letters below. It wasn’t about a recipe for devil’s-food cake with tomatoes, but about food developed through biotechnology.”

“The scientific reasons — chemicals released and all that baloney — were too hard to digest, but the heart of the matter⟳ is that maybe the cerebellum, not the Devil, is the real cause of those urges for devil’s-food cake.”

“In the American Century Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes of the 20th Century (Clarkson Potter, $35), Jean Anderson writes there have⟳ been a number⟳ of offbeat variations on devil’s-food cake that called for mashed potatoes, ground cinnamon and cloves. Generations of bakers have⟳ added generous amounts of red food coloring to enhance the batter’s dark coloring and, fittingly for its ghoulish name⟳, gave devil’s-food cakes a bit of a bloody tinge.”

“For the past few hundred years, Americans have⟳ considered chocolate more devilish than divine. Desserts have⟳ names such as Chocolate Decadence,” devil’s-food cake and, of course, Death by Chocolate.”

“It’s called devil’s-food cake for good reason⟳ / Why is a rich chocolate layer cake named for the devil?”

“They say⟳ the devil is in the details — this is especially true when it has anything to do with recipes, and this wasn’t even devil’s-food cake.”

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