Secret ingredients like freshly brewed coffee, sour cream, Dutch-processed cocoa and a whole lot of baking soda intensify the chocolate flavor, making this the best devil’s food cake recipe ever.

Andrew used his Gran’s recipe for a classic light chocolate cake and topped it with chocolate icing, chocolate shards, hazelnuts and raspberries for a spectacular finish fit for a birthday.

There are many great recipes out there, and your perfect chocolate cake might be very ... sugar works if you like a deeply dark Devil’s food cake. A note on granulated sugar – it’s best ...