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Devil's Food Cake with Chocolate Spider's Web Recipe

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Devil's Food Cake with Chocolate Spider's Web
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Ingredients
16
Count
Nutrition
6012
Calories
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Make cake layers: Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease three 9-inch round cake pans and line each bottom with a round of wax paper. Grease paper and dust pans with flour, knocking out excess flour.
  2. In a bowl whisk boiling water into cocoa until smooth and whisk in milk and vanilla.
  3. In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy and beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
  4. Into another bowl sift together flour, baking soda, and salt and add to egg mixture in batches alternately with cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture and beating well after each addition.
  5. Divide batter among pans, smoothing tops, and bake in upper and lower thirds of oven, switching position of pans halfway through baking, 20 to 25 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean and layers begin to pull away from sides of pans.
  6. Cool layers in pans on racks 10 minutes and turn out onto racks to cool completely. Cake layers may be made ahead and kept, wrapped well in plastic wrap, at room teperature 2 days or frozen 1 week.
  7. Make chocolate web and spider: On a sheet of parchment paper draw an 11-inch circle with a pen or pencil and draw a spider web on it, extending some of ends beyond circle (see drawing). Tear off a large corner of the paper and on it draw a spider (see drawing). Turn drawings over onto a large baking sheet.
  8. In a metal bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water melt chocolate chips, stirring until smooth. Transfer chocolate to a pastry bag fitted with a #3 plain tip (slightly smaller than 3/4 inch). (Alternatively, form a makeshift pastry bag: Transfer chocolate to a small sealable plastic bag and seal bag, pressing out excess air. Squeeze chocolate to one corner of bag and snip off about 1/8 inch from corner, making a small hole.)
  9. Pipe chocolate on web, beginning with spokes, and on spider. Freeze web and spider on baking sheet until very firm, at least 1 hour and up to 1 day.
  10. Make coffee meringue frosting: In a metal bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water beat frosting ingredients with a hand-held electric mixer on low speed until mixture is warm and sugar is dissolved. Beat frosting on high speed 7 minutes, or until thick and fluffy. Remove bowl from heat and beat frosting until slightly cooled.
  11. Assemble cake: Put a cake layer on a serving plate and spread top with some frosting. Top with another cake layer and spread top with more frosting. Top with remaining cake layer and frost cake with remaining frosting.
  12. Working quickly, invert paper with frozen web onto another sheet of parchment or wax paper and peel off paper quickly but carefully. invert spider web carefully onto cake and let soften at room temperature until overhanging edges begin to droop. press overhang gently against side of cake. Cake may be assembled and decorated 4 hours ahead and kept in a cake keeper, chilled. Let cake stand at room temperature 30 minutes before serving.
  13. Just before serving, peel chocolate spider from paper and put on cake.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 6012.03 Kcal (25171 kJ)
Calories from fat 2258.01 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 250.89g 386%
Cholesterol 1234.5mg 412%
Sodium 3313.37mg 138%
Potassium 2276.1mg 48%
Total Carbs 935.8g 312%
Sugars 688.07g 2752%
Dietary Fiber 34.7g 139%
Protein 77.11g 154%
Vitamin A 2.3mg 76%
Iron 25.4mg 141%
Calcium 703.5mg 70%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 300.98 Kcal (1260 kJ)
Calories from fat 113.04 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12.56g 386%
Cholesterol 61.8mg 412%
Sodium 165.88mg 138%
Potassium 113.95mg 48%
Total Carbs 46.85g 312%
Sugars 34.45g 2752%
Dietary Fiber 1.74g 139%
Protein 3.86g 154%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 76%
Iron 1.3mg 141%
Calcium 35.2mg 70%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 140.3
    Points
  • 170
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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