Devils Food Cake
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Ingredients
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 8 fl oz milk
- 4 oz margarine
- 9 oz Caster sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 8 oz plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 oz cocoa powder
- 8oz Philidelphia cheese/Cream cheese
- 1 tbsp single cream/milk
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1lb Icing sugar
Accompaniment
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Method
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Add lemon juice to milk and leave to one side.
Grease and bottom line two 8 inch sandwich tines. In a bowl, cream together the margarine with half the sugar until light. Gradually beat in the eggs and mix in the remaining sugar. Sift the flour, bicarb and cocoa together. Add this to the egg mixture, alternately with the milk. beating well after each addition. Divide the mixture between the tins. Bake in the oven at 350f/180C/Gas 4 for 25-30 mins. Leave in the tins to cool for 5 mins, then turn out on to a wire rack to cool. When cool, slice each cake in half to make 4 layers.
Frosting
Prepare the frosting by creaming the cheese, cream, vanilla essence and icing sugar. Cover over cake and between layers
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