Devil’s Food Cake Recipe
We have a delectable Devil’s Food Cake Recipe to share with you. This recipe includes our BakeShure® Encapsulates to boost quality and consistency through pH optimization, flavor delivery, leavening control, moisture control, and antimicrobial preservation.
By using the BakeShure Sodium-Free powder, the overall sodium content of finished products can be reduced up to 70%. This is especially important due to the increase in health-conscious customers. The ingredients and instructions for this sweet treat are below!
Ingredients | Regular | BS Complete | BS Sodium-Free |
Baker’s % | |||
Sugar | 160.0 | 160.0 | 160.0 |
Cake Flour | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Baking Powder | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
Eggs, room temp. | 65.0 | 65.0 | 65.0 |
butter, melted | 65.0 | 65.0 | 65.0 |
Water, 120°F | 130.0 | 130.0 | 130.0 |
Vanilla Extract | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
Cocoa powder, sifted | 40.0 | 40.0 | 40.0 |
mg Na+/80g | 124 | 81 | 36 |
Instructions
- Sift together the sugar, flour, and baking powder using a 20 mesh sieve three times.
- Add blended eggs, a third at a time, mixing for 30 seconds on speed 2 with the paddle attachment and scraping between additions. Mix for an additional minute on speed 2 after last addition.
- Slowly add the warm butter while mixing on speed 2, scraping at the halfway point. Mix for one minute on speed 2 after all butter is added.
- Slowly add the water and vanilla while mixing on speed 2, scraping occasionally. Mix for an additional minute.
- Add the sifted cocoa powder and mix on speed 1 for two minutes.
- Pour the batter into 1pt loaf pans, 250g per pan, and bake in a 325°F conventional oven for 37 minutes.
Balchem creates a wide variety of bakery applications. These can be applied in many different applications to create shelf life extension, pH control and improve flavor impact.
Balchem’s highly skilled Applications Team has a broad knowledge of the Baking Industry and is available to support, from providing starting formulations for a new Apple Muffin to designing a stability test on a Devil’s Food Cake dry mix.
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