devil's food cake

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   very dark chocolate cake

   Synonymsdevil's food

   Broaderchocolate cake

Questions about devil's food cake

What does devil's food cake mean?

devil's food cake means "very dark chocolate cake".

What is another word for devil's food cake?

Close synonyms include devil's food. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is devil's food cake a common word?

devil's food cake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.