In The Mix - Betty Crocker's Devil's Food Cake Mix

Name: Devil’s Food Cake Mix

Company: Betty Crocker

Bought In: Tesco

Oh yes, chocolate again, we all know how much my Adam and I love it by now and this beautiful pile of chocolate filled with chocolate covered in chocolate is no exception. You will need vegetable oil, 3 eggs, water and a tub of chocolate icing, the preferred,(and the one I used) being Betty Crocker’s Chocolate Fudge Icing (lots left over mmmm!).

Part 1) Mix the cake mix with the eggs, oil and water. The box suggests an electric whisk but I did it by hand, takes a little while to get it “smooth and creamy” as the instructions say but it does the job just fine. I would use the electric whisk it you have one though!

Part 2) Now I have something to confess here… the instructions say to “pour the cake mix into two greased tins and I did not… I poured it into one, my logic being that I could cut it in half after to fill it. It didn’t really turn out that way…

Part 3) it says on the box to bake 23-28 mins, of course because I put the mix all in one tin I did it a little longer and it came out looking gorgeous, so I flipped it onto a wire rack to cool…only (and this is SO, SO important) I didn’t knife test it first! And it splattered all over the rack and my table. I did manage to clean it up, save it and put what was left back into the oven for a bit more time, KNIFE TEST IT and have a pretty good looking cake after (albeit one that was about half the size of the one on the box.

Part 4) The icing on the cake, literally! If you have followed the instructions properly, let your two halves cool on your (nice and clean) wire rack and then pop one on a plate, add a layer of icing, sandwich the second half on top and smother your cake in all the icing! Also, if you so wish (like I did) sit and eat the remaining icing with a spoon!

Notes: This is an amazing cake, the box only has one thing in it, the bag of cake mix, so this recipe is super easy to do and its all chocolate, perfect! If there is one thing that this recipe has taught me though, it is that when taking a baked cake out of the oven always, always, ALWAYS knife test it! I can’t stress this enough, ALWAYS! Slide a clean knife into the centre of your cake/cup-cake/loaf etc and take it out again, if the knife is clean the cake is done, if it comes out with batter on it then put the cake back for another couple of minutes.