substituted the baking soda with baking powder (so i removed the sour cream) turned out to be very dry and crumbly... and i only baked it for 30 min.

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I made this last night for a co-worker's birthday. Very good -- I went with the "extra fudgy" option and the cake came out dense but done all the way through. One note: The recipe directions could use another enumerated point for those who get ahead of ourselves. Point #2 has you both mixing your cocoa/wet and sifting your flour, but not together. Yes, I should read all the instructions first, but I've made a LOT of chocolate cakes and now have a bag of sifted cake flour and dutch cocoa.

I, too, thought the cake was very dry, not moist like devil's food should be. Wondering if I over baked? The chocolate flavor wasn't great and I bought good Dutch-process cocoa especially for the cake. Disappointed!

I love this cake and have baked it as cupcakes too. I didn't have any problem with dryness. The cake is quite mild in flavour, more of a "crowd pleaser chocolate" than a "death by chocolate" experience. The frosting is silky, glossy and delicious. I usually add a raspberry preserve or coffee cream to the centre filling along with the frosting which is really a "milk chocolate ganache". I'm from Australia and this cake is large by our standards and could easily be halved, then split to fill.

In my opinion, this cake is good, but not great and I won't be making it again. I followed the recipe exactly and tested it often with a cake tester as the time neared. I felt it had a weak chocolate flavor even though I used high quality, organic, dutch process cocoa powder. The texture was different from how I expected a devil's food cake to turn out. It had a dry quality to it. I didn't make the frosting, so I can't comment on that. Again, it was so-so.

This cake turned our very dry and i baked it 7 minutes less than suggested in recipe. My gas oven is only a year old and bakes pretty accurately. I was very disappointed, this cake took time and it was not good. What a bummer. I suggest baking for 30 minutes and check it every couple of minutes from there. 45-50 minutes was waaaaaay too long of a baking time. I baked mine for 38 minutes and it was already over done :( big disappointment.

Its very good

If your cake came out dry, it is because you over baked it. Decrease baking time and it will come out moist like it is supposed to be.

This cake was very chocolaty in flavor, but it turned out very dry which was very disappointing. The frosting was good but couldn't get my mind off of the dryness of the cake.