Devil's Food Cake

Ingredients

• 0.5 teaspoon baking soda 
• 0.5 cup butter softened
• 0.5 cup cocoa 
• 2  eggs 
• 2 cups flour all-purpose
• 0.5 cup milk 
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 
• 1.5 cups sugar 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla 
• 0.5 cup water hot

Equipment

• oven
• mixing bowl

Directions

1. Cream butter in a large mixing bowl; add sugar, beating well.
2. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
3. Add water; beat well.
4. Combine flour, cocoa, soda, and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
5. Mix well after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
6. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
7. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove layers from pans, and let cool completely.