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Gluten Free Devil’s Food Chocolate Cake

September 4, 2018 By Sandi Gaertner 21 Comments

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If you love chocolate, this cake will be for you! Rich dark chocolate flavors are in every bite you take of this gluten free devil’s food cake.

This gluten free cake recipe can make a sheet cake, a layered cake, or cupcakes! If you love chocolate as much as we do, you will want to check out all of my delicious gluten free chocolate recipes.

Gluten Free Devil's Food Cake in a baking pan

Today is all about chocolate cravings. As I was going through my family’s antique recipe cards, it was really hard to figure out what to make next.

When I saw this devil’s food chocolate cake recipe in my grandmother’s recipe box, I knew I needed to convert this recipe to gluten free asap just in case my readers love chocolate as much as my family.

Table of Contents

  • Devil’s Food Cake
  • Fun Ways to Make This Cake Recipe:
  • How to make gluten free devil’s food cake.
  • More Delicious Gluten Free Chocolate Desserts to Try:
  • Gluten Free Devil's Food Cake
    • Ingredients
    • Instructions
    • Recommended Products

Devil’s Food Cake

Devil’s food cake is a moist, rich chocolate cake. If you love angel food cake, this would be the chocolate version of that cake. This gluten free version of devil’s food cake is dense, and rich, and would be delicious by itself, or smothered in a rich chocolate frosting.

In the old days, this cake was made with unsweetened chocolate baking squares. Times have changed over the years and many more devil’s food cake recipes are made with unsweetened cocoa powder now.”

You will also notice this gluten free chocolate cake has a darker color than many gluten free chocolate cake recipes. This recipe has extra baking soda, which changes the pH level of this cake, making it a deeper dark brown color.

devils-food-cake-recipe-card-image

I love how this card is noted: “Never Fails”.

I have to agree.

I substituted the regular flour with this gluten free flour blend. This gluten free devils food cake recipe still turned out amazing!! If you are a chocoholic, or just love chocolate cake, this easy gluten free chocolate cake recipe is going to become one of your favorites!!

What this chocolate cake recipe is fun, but you won’t find molten chocolate lava in this cake (but what a fun idea to try next!) What you will find is a moist chocolate cake that is still light and airy. I created another delicious Gluten Free Chocolate Layer Cake recipe on my sister site that is beautiful for a party.

If chocolate isn’t your thing, or if you need both a chocolate and vanilla cake, you will want to make this Gluten Free Vanilla Cake recipe. It is the ultimate party cake!

Gluten Free Devil's Food Cake slice on a white plate with the cake pan in the background

As you can see, this cake has all of the delicious devil’s food cake traits, it is moist and rich!

Fun Ways to Make This Cake Recipe:

  • Make this cake in a round pan and you have an amazing gluten free birthday cake!
  • It also makes a delicious gluten free sheet cake. All you would need is frosting! It would be perfect for a kid’s birthday party.
  • Knowing my kids, they would want a cupcake version of this so they can pile on the frosting :-).

How to make gluten free devil’s food cake.

cooking the chocolate custard

This gluten free chocolate cake is so easy to make! The first step is to make the chocolate custard in a saucepan. This is the secret to the deep chocolate flavor of this devil’s food cake recipe.

It is a little different from your typical cake recipe because the cake is made from a chocolate custard. You want to make the chocolate custard first, and allow it to cool a little bit. This is why the cake is so moist and chocolaty!

adding the wet and dry ingredients in a bowl

Mix in the chocolate custard, remaining wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.

the devil's food cake batter in a bowl

You can see the batter is just right (sorry for the meh picture!) Bake the cake in this pan, it is a perfect size, unless you prefer to make a cute little-layered gluten free birthday cake! Then you would want these pans.

Gluten Free Devil's Food Cake slice on a plate. A fork is holding a bite of cake

Are you ready to take a bite?

More Delicious Gluten Free Chocolate Desserts to Try:

  • Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Pops
  • Dark Chocolate Custard
  • Gluten Free Chocolate Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
  • Gluten Free Chunky Monkey Donuts

Things You Need To Make This Recipe:

  1. My favorite gluten free flour blend.
  2. Rich and chocolaty cocoa powder.
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Gluten Free Devil's Food Cake

Gluten Free Devil's Food Cake

Yield: 12 people
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes

Moist chocolaty gluten free devil's food cake.

Ingredients

  • For the Custard:
  • 3/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • For the Cake:
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1 3/4 cups gluten free flour blend
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Spray coconut oil in an 8x8 baking pan.
  3. In a saucepan, add custard ingredients and cook over low heat. Allow to bubble gently, then remove from the heat.
  4. In a large bowl, add all cake dry ingredients. Sift together.
  5. Add wet ingredients to custard and whisk to blend.
  6. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix.
  7. Pour the batter into the cake pan and bake 25-30 minutes until done.

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 273 Total Fat: 10g Saturated Fat: 5g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 3g Cholesterol: 67mg Sodium: 260mg Carbohydrates: 43g Fiber: 2g Sugar: 25g Protein: 4g
Please note this nutrition information is calculated by a recipe plugin and is an estimate based on the ingredients used in this recipe.
© Sandi Gaertner
Cuisine: American / Category: Gluten Free Dessert Recipes

 

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Comments

  1. Rhonda

    November 2, 2019 at 6:26 pm

    I tried to make this cake but it did not get done in 30 minutes. Left it in for probably 5 minutes more and still wasn’t done in the middle. I used a glass baking dish – could that have been the problem?

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      November 4, 2019 at 1:46 pm

      Hi Rhonda, I am not sure the size and depth of the pan you used. I haven’t baked in glass bakeware either. I hope you let it bake longer so you could enjoy it?

      Reply
  2. Jane

    September 5, 2019 at 10:06 am

    Can I use a bundt pan for this recipe? I am excited to try it.

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      September 5, 2019 at 3:13 pm

      Hi Jane, I haven’t tried this in a bundt pan, but I don’t see why not to try…you will need to adjust the bake time a bit. Use the toothpick method to test for doneness!

      Reply
  3. Elaine

    August 5, 2019 at 6:45 pm

    I made this Devil’s Food Cake, for my birthday, a few weeks ago. WOW! It was so good & moist and I didn’t even frost it. My husband could not tell it was gluten free. I really liked that the recipe made only one layer. This recipe is a keeper. I will definitely make this again and again. Thanks for posting this.

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      August 6, 2019 at 1:03 pm

      OMG I am so glad you liked it. This is my ultimate favorite chocolate cake.

      Reply
  4. Elaine

    September 12, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    I love those old handwritten recipe cards. They’re definitely something to cherish. This recipe is perfect for my family–it’s gluten-free and uses almond milk. Pinning!

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      September 13, 2018 at 9:50 pm

      I am so glad you think your family will like this. The recipe is very special to us.

      Reply
  5. Sues

    September 12, 2018 at 4:28 pm

    This cake looks so moist and perfect!! And I love your grandma’s recipe card.. It totally looks like my mom’s handwriting and brings back lots of memories for me. So sweet you’re making variations on her recipes!

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      September 13, 2018 at 9:53 pm

      Thank you so much Sue, I love this brings back fond memories.

      Reply
  6. Kelly Anthony

    September 12, 2018 at 2:31 pm

    You are a miracle worker! This cake looks divine AND it’s gluten free! Win, win!!!

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      September 13, 2018 at 9:53 pm

      Thank you so much Kelly ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  7. Tisha

    September 12, 2018 at 2:28 pm

    Love getting recipes handed down! My family and I have cookbooks with lots of family recipes they are the best! This cake looks amazing too!!!

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      September 13, 2018 at 9:53 pm

      I love that your family has this tradition ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  8. Natalie

    September 5, 2018 at 10:16 am

    Handwritten recipe cards are the best! I love that you included a photo of it! And I never would have guessed that this was gluten free! Amazing!

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      September 5, 2018 at 1:26 pm

      Thank you so much Natalie. I treasure our family’s written recipes.

      Reply
  9. Jenni

    September 5, 2018 at 4:26 am

    I love finding great recipes that have been passed down! Glad you were able to make this one gluten free – it looks so amazing!!

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      September 5, 2018 at 1:31 pm

      Thank you so much Jenni ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  10. Stef

    September 4, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    I so want to try this as cupcakes! Thanks for explaining how you got the color darker. That was interesting.

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      September 4, 2018 at 9:54 pm

      I hope you like them Stef :-).

      Reply

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