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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