Recipe: Devil’s Food Field Cake

By Taylor Bern

Thursday, October 22, 2009

CAKE

What you’ll need:

2/3 Cup shortening

2 ¼ cups flour

2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

1 ¼ cups milk

3 eggs

3 1oz. squares of unsweetened chocolate, melted

Instructions:

Stir shortening in bowl until soft, then mix in dry ingredients. Stir in ½ cup of milk until lumps are gone. Add the rest of the milk, eggs, melted chocolate squares and continue to stir. Pour into pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes.

TOPPING

What you'll need:

1 can of chocolate frosting

1 can of vanilla frosting

Red food coloring

Blue food coloring

Green sprinkles

Sugar footballs

Instructions:

Let cake cool for about ten minutes, then frost entire cake with chocolate frosting. Immediately sprinkle green sprinkles over the wet frosting to give the cake a field-like effect. Take a plastic sandwich bag and put about 4 spoonfuls of vanilla frosting inside. Cut a tiny hole in the corner of the bag then proceed to draw vertical field lines down the cake. In two separate bowls mix vanilla frosting with red food color in one and blue in the other until the frosting is desired color. Fill in the endzones with blue food coloring just as you did with the sidelines and repeat with the red to draw in the Kansas Jayhawks. Other details can be added in similar fashion. Goalposts can be made out of yellow construction paper.

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