Instructions Heat oven to 350 degrees F (176 degrees C). Grease and flour the inside of a 9-inch loaf pan. Chop the chocolate into small pieces and place it in a microwave safe bowl. Place the ...

According Michele Urvater, author of “ Chocolate Cake ” (Broadway, 2001), recipes for devil’s food cakes first appeared in cookbooks around the turn of the century.

The simplest way to make a boxed cake taste homemade is to upgrade one of the back-of-the-box ingredients. This recipe from ...

8. To finish, place a layer of cake on a plate and coat with 1 inch of buttercream. Use an offset spatula to even it out, then add the other layer. Add a big scoop of buttercream on top of the ...

So when I heard about a popular 80-year-old chocolate cake recipe on Reddit, I knew I needed to live vicariously through another family's love of baking and try it out for myself.

Butter four 9-inch cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment paper. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

For an 11-Layer Cake, Start With This Devil’s Food Recipe from a Master Baker Brooklyn-based baker Auzerais Bellamy’s favorite cake has blondies — and a rich devil’s food cake base ...

This recipe appears in Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours, Houghton Mifflin 2006. I've sometimes thought that if my mother had been a baker (she wasn't), and if she had ever made me ...

This high-altitude recipe from former Denver Post food editor Helen Dollaghan first appeared in The Post in 1967. It fills a 9-inch tube pan or two 8-inch layers with batter left over for 6-9 cupca… ...