Devil's Food Cake

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon organic chocolate flavoring
  • 1 tablespoon organic coffee flavoring
  • 2 sticks unsalted butter, melted
  • 2 cups light brown sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 cups flour
  • 3/4 cup Dutch cocoa (Droste's or Van Houten)
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Steps:

  1. Beat butter and sugar together, add eggs beating after each addition. Add vanilla, chocolate flavor, coffee flavor, beat.
  2. Mix together sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, cocoa. Beat water and buttermilk into egg mixture. Beat in flour mixture.
  3. Turn into greased and floured baking pan.
  4. Bake: in glass bundt pan bake at 325 degrees for about 45 minutes. When done, cake should spring back when pressed with a fingertip.
  5. Or bake in three 9" cake pans at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. When done, cake should spring back when pressed with a fingertip.

Contact Information

Leith Hall Historic Seashore Inn Bed and Breakfast
Leith Hall Historic Seashore Inn, Cape May, NJ - Inn
Leith Hall Historic Seashore Inn
22 Ocean St
Cape May, NJ 08204-2412
USA
Phone: +1-609-884-1934
Toll-free: +1-877-884-1400
Innkeeper(s)
Elan & Susan Zingman-Leith
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$95 - $270
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This is the formal parlor decorated in 1880s Anglo-Japanese style with Eastlake furniture and featuring a Victorian cabinet grand piano. Off the parlor is a little library with books, DVDs and VCR tapes to be enjoyed by our guests. The library also has a buffet with an ice maker and refreshments available 24 hours/day.The Audubon Suite First Floor The Audubon Suite sitting room features bird murals and Audubon prints on the walls. It includes a Victorian fireplace, an Eastlake parlor table and chairs, and cable TV & DVD player. The Bedroom has a queen size brass bed as well as an American Empire mahogany dresser and mirror. It features Victorian pictures of angels and cupids and is painted to look like a striped tent on a tropical beach. The Magnolia Bedroom features Magnolia blossoms on the painted ceiling, a Magnolia wallpaper border, and a 1880's dresser and armoire. It has two Victorian twin beds. The Audubon Suite's private bathroom has a whirlpool tub with a shower over it. The suite has A/C and has a private entrance off the porch. Price is for 2 people, for each additional person (up to 4 total), add $25/night per person.
The Iris Room First Floor The Iris Room was originally the front parlor of the house. It is our biggest room with a very elaborate 1880's ceiling paper and wallpaper with irises in it. It features a king size cast iron bed, cable TV & VCR, an easy chair, rocker, and a marble topped Eastlake dresser. It is air conditioned and has a private bathroom with shower.The Highland Room Second Floor • Ocean View The Highland Room features murals of the Scottish Highlands on the walls and little Scottish angels on the ceiling. It contains a queen size bed, cable TV & VCR, a day bed and a small refrigerator, as well as an 1880's dresser, 1880's tables and a corner chair. The Highland Room is air conditioned and has a private bathroom with shower.
The Checkerboard Room Third Floor • Ocean View The Checkerboard Room displays an 1880's geometric wallpaper border and stenciling. It includes a queen size brass bed with a half canopy over it, cable TV & DVD player, a turn of the century oak dresser with owl-head pulls, an Art Nouveau armoire and a Craftsman stlye rocker and easy chair. The Checkerboard Room also has an Ocean View that you can see when you sit up in bed, and has A/C. The bathroom for the Checkerboard Room is private and only used by that room, but is down the hall (it can be kept locked with the room key).The Empire Room Second Floor • Ocean View The Empire Room is furnished with American-Empire furniture (1815-1859) and features a queen size mahogany sleigh bed topped by a canopy. It includes a 1893 wallpaper border, stenciling, marbleizing and is painted a Victorian color called "Ashes of Roses". The Empire Room is air conditioned, has cable TV & VCR, and has a private bath which contains a shower.
The Celebrity Room Third Floor • Ocean View The Celebrity Room features a tall wooden 1880's queen size bed with a half-canopy over it. It is decorated with lots of pictures of 1880's celebrities including Caruse, Oscar Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt. It also contains a Victorian armoire and a "gentleman's dresser". The Celebrity room is air conditioned, has cable TV & DVD player, has an Ocean View, and a private bathroom with showerThe Turkish Suite Second Floor • Ocean View The Turkish Suite is the whole front of the house on the second floor. It has a large bedroom with a king size brass and iron bed topped by a half canopy. The room is decorated in 1880's Exotic Revival Style featuring peacock feather fans, Middle-Eastern pictures and statues, fezzes and photographs. It is separated by an archway from a smaller sitting room with a sofa, table, cable TV & DVD/VCR and a small refrigerator. The suite has A/C and has a private bath with whirlpool tub (shower over it).
The Maple Leaf Suite Third Floor • Ocean View The Maple Leaf Suite forms the whole front of the house on the third floor. The sitting room features a Victorian style fireplace, cable TV & DVD/VCR, and a small refrigerator. It is decorated with elaborate 1880's ceiling paper and stenciling. The bedroom has a wooden 4-poster queen size bed. You have a view of the ocean when you sit up in bed. It has an 1880's marble topped dresser and armoire, as well as Pre-Raphaelite pictures and family photos. The Maple Leaf Suite is air conditioned and includes a private bathroom with shower.