Old Fashioned Devil's Food Cake (cake Mix Doctor)

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package devil's food cake mix or 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package devil's food cake mix with pudding
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 1/3 cups buttermilk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 3 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 place rack in center of oven and preheat oven to 350°f; grease two 9-inch round cake pans.
• 2 place the cake mix, cocoa, buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. blend with an electric mixer on low speed 1 minute. stop the machine and scrape down sides. increase the speed to medium and beat 2 minutes more, scraping sides if needed. the batter will look well combined. divide the batter evenly between cake pans, smoothing with rubber spatula. place pans side by side in oven.
• 3 bake the cakes until they spring back when lightly pressed with your finger, 28 to 30 minutes. remove from the oven and cool on wire racks for 10 minutes. run a knife around the edges and invert onto rack, and again until right side up and cool another 30 minutes.