{"id":2316,"date":"2026-02-15T18:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:56","slug":"martha-washingtons-devils-food-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/martha-washingtons-devils-food-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Washington&#8217;s Devil&#8217;s Food Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>4 ounces unsweetened chocolate<br \/>\n1 C. sugar<br \/>\n1\/2 C. buttermilk or sour milk<br \/>\n1\/2 C. cake flour<br \/>\n1 1\/2 tsp. baking powder<br \/>\n3\/4 tsp. soda<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. salt<br \/>\n1\/2 C. butter; or shortening<br \/>\n3\/4 C. sugar<br \/>\n3 eggs, well beaten<br \/>\n1 C. buttermilk; or sour milk<br \/>\n1 tsp. vanilla<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Melt chocolate over boiling water; add 1 C. sugar and 1\/2 C. buttermilk and stir over  boiling water until sugar is dissolved. Cool. Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder,  soda, and salt and sift together three times. Cream butter thoroughly then add 3\/4 C.  sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Add  about 1\/4 of flour mixture, mix thoroughly; add chocolate mixture and blend. Add  remaining flour, alternately with buttermilk, a small Amount at a time; beat very  thoroughly after each addition. Add vanilla. Bake in greased 15x9x2-inch pan, in a  moderate oven at 350 for 30 minutes or until cake is done. When cold, trim edges, cut in  half crosswise, and put together as a two-layer cake, matching edges carefully. Top as  desired. Or add chopped nutmeats to part of frosting and use as filling.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;But He answered and said, &quot;It is written, &#039;MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.&#039;&quot; (Matthew 4:4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/martha-washingtons-devils-food-cake\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}