devil's food cake

So many: The caramelized cinnamon sugar french toast, toasted ricotta gnocchi with pistachio pesto, ginger garlic chicken noodle soup, oven-braised beef with harissa, thick molasses spice cookies and the cover girl, the devil's food cake with salted milk chocolate frosting.

Food52's Resident Baking BFF describes this dessert as a single, tall devil's food cake topped with an almost equally tall mound of peppermint seven-minute frosting.

If this irresistibly moist, meringue buttercream-frosted devil's food cake is good enough for Jeffrey — it does come from the cookbook Ina dedicated to him, after all — then it's 100 percent good enough for us.

The devil's food cake is moist and delicious with any kind of cocoa — but is especially decadent with black cocoa powder, which gives the cake a rich chocolate taste and a gorgeous, intense color contrast with the light, fluffy frosting.

Devil’s food cake stood out for its significant amount of chocolate and rich flavor.