Posted on 05/19/2025 7:11:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
NATIONAL DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE DAY
Life is a little better on May 19 because we can indulge in the flavor and richness of National Devil’s Food Cake Day. This food holiday is for all the chocolate cake lovers throughout the country and around the world!
#DevilsFoodCakeDay
Devil’s Food Cake is a heavenly chocolate cake. It differs from a regular chocolate cake by its darker color and tends to be more moist and airy. Devil's Food cake recipes use hot or boiling water as the primary liquid. Cocoa is typically utilized in the batter, as opposed to chocolate, and coffee can be added for a distinctive flavor. A delicious chocolate frosting usually accompanies the cake.
Deviled food is food that is dark, rich, and chocolatey. The term “deviled” dates into the 18th century and remains popular in various recipes ever since. At one time, Velvet Red Cake was one name for what we might view today as deviled cake.
Recipes for Devil's Food cakes often appeared alongside recipes for Angel Food cakes. One of the earliest recipes appeared in August 10, 1898, in an edition of the Hagerstown Exponent of Hagerstown, Indiana. While earlier chocolate cake recipes existed before this one, Devil's Food Cake is uniquely different from other chocolate cakes.
HOW TO OBSERVE Devils Food Cake Day
Baking a cake is the first idea to offer.
Buy a Deviled Food Cake is another option.
Share with friends and neighbors.
Send a cake to the home office of National Day Calendar!
Mix up a recipe you love and be sure to share it on social media using the hashtag #DevilsFoodCakeDay.
You can also submit recipes right here on our website using the form on our Recipe Page. Just scroll down that page to find the form.
NATIONAL DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE DAY HISTORY
National Day Calendar continues researching the origins of this dessert holiday. We do know that Southern states here in the USA once made the cake from beets with cocoa. Does that seem strange? It does to us, too.
If you are ever wondering which came first, Angel Food Cake or Devil's Food Cake, we have an easy way to remember. Angels came first before devils and the same with these cakes. Angel Food has been around since at least the early 1880s, while Devils Food came onto the scene in the later 1880s.
Notable Birthdays for May 19
Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) - Philanthropist and founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University is named after.
John Jacob Abel (1857-1938) - Pharmacologist who started the Pharmacology Department at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Henry B. Richardson (1889-1963) - Olympic bronze medalist for archery.
Frank Luke Jr. (1897-1918) - World War I pilot and the first U.S. pilot to receive the Medal of Honor.
Ruth Ella Moore (1903-1994) - The first Black woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in natural science in the U.S.
Gary Kildall (1942-1994) - Computer scientist and founder of Digital Research Inc.
Geraldine Laybourne (1947-Still Living) - Media entrepreneur who helped establish the Nickelodeon Network.
Dusty Hill (1949-2021) - Bass player for the rock band ZZ Top.
Jodi Picoult (1966-Still Living) - Acclaimed author.
Memorable Events for May 19
1828 - President Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law to protect wool manufacturers in the U.S.
1857 - The electric fire alarm is patented by William Channing and Moses G. Farmer.
1883 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West show opens in Omaha, NE.
1884 - The Ringling Brothers circus premieres in Baraboo, WI.
1885 - The first mass production of shoes begins in Lynn, MA by Jan Matzeliger's Consolidated Lasting Machine Company.
1892 - The National Society of Colonial Dames of America is founded in NY. The organization is still operating today.
1913 - The Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill is passed, Japanese from owning land in California.
1921 - Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in response to the large influx of Southern and Eastern Europeans immigrants in the U.S.
1944 - W.E.B. Du Bois (writer and civil rights activist) becomes the first Black member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1962 - Marilyn Monroe sings her iconic "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" song to President Kennedy.
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CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY!!!!.....................
I just had a chocolate Twinkie with chocolate filling for breakfast.
OK that is just WAY too much chocolate - and yes that is possible!
Love chocolate but that is a terminal dose.
Prefer a white cake with chocolate frosting.
“I just had a chocolate Twinkie with chocolate filling for breakfast.”
Breakfast of champions there. Hopefully with a gas station coffee.
I’m suing the calendar for too many high carb days.
Try a Lemon cake with Chocolate frosting!................
El Diablo.
I’m the same way. Either chocolate cake with white frosting or white cake with chocolate frosting.
We used to make the box mix (Better crocker/Duncan Hines) cakes when growing up. The Devils Food was the best. I always felt the difference between Devils Food and regular chocolate was that the DF was sweeter, while the chocolate still had some of the bitterness in it.
Bkmk
Yuk! I don’t like chocolate cake.
Good! That leaves more for me!!!!...........................
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