Devil's Food Cake
===Ingredients===
  * 2 cups sugar
  * 1 cup (2 sticks) butter
  * 1 teaspoon vanilla
  * 1/2 teaspoon almond extract (or substitute vanilla)
  * 2 large eggs
  * 2 1/2 cups cake flour
  * 1 cup cocoa powder
  * 2 teaspoons baking soda
  * 2 1/2 cups buttermilk
  * 1 cup chocolate chips                   

Yield:3 nine inch cake layers, or 2  dozen cupcakes, or 1 twelve inch cake layer

===Instructions===
  - Preheat oven to 325.
  -  Prepare cake pans (line cupcake pan with papers, or grease and flour cake pans)
  -  Cream together the butter, sugar, vanilla and almond extracts until light and fluffy
  -  Beat in the eggs one at a time
  -  In another bowl mix together the flour, cocoa, and baking soda
  -  Beat flour mixture into the butter/sugar mixture alternately with the buttermilk
  -  Fold in the chocolate chips
  -  Pour batter into prepared pans and bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (25-30 minutes for 3 9" layers, less for cupcakes, more for one large cake layer)
  -  Cool completely, then frost as desired

 Source: Softasilk Cake Flour box plus Arwen's modifications 

NOTES
11 October 2008: Made as cupcakes for Mike's birthday. Used chocolate frosting for honey chocolate chip cupcakes. Very good. Even Braedon ate the cake part. Made 2 1/2 dozen cupcakes with large scooper.
18 October 2008: Made 3 nine inch layers but treated individually. Froze one, decorated 2 as Halloween cakes (one for school, one for us). Used vanilla buttercream frosting, and decorated with candy corn and Halloween rubber duckies.  Also, was short on cocoa powder so I added one melted unsweetened chocolate square. I think it was even better.
25 October 2008: Made as one large (i.e 12") layer for Braedon's birthday party. Used only vanilla extract (no almond) as I wasn't sure if any of the kids had nut issues. Frosted with vanilla buttercream. It was a big hit.

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
  * 16 ounces confectioners sugar
  * 6 Tb butter
  * 3 Tb milk
  * 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Mix all together until desired consistency (add more sugar if too runny, add more milk if too stiff)

I think I doubled the frosting recipe, and then also needed another 1/2 batch for the Pikachu & words