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" If you want to enrage, terrify and just plain freak people out, bake a sheet cake that looks like it could be a friendly children&amp;#039;s board game/portal to the underworld. That&amp;#039;s the lesson we learned on Friday, after posting a video showing people how to bake a devil&amp;#039;s food cake that looks like a Ouija board. It was supposed to be a spooky centerpiece for a Halloween party, but it turned out to be a lightning rod for controversy.  Within seconds of appearing on Facebook, the likes started mixing with angry faces, and the comments started rolling in\u2014some trolling, some joking, and many completely horrified. &amp;quot;Nope, I&amp;#039;m not letting that in my house,&amp;quot; wrote Kaitlin Twomey.   &amp;quot;NO it is not Christian!!!!! Get that Deval worship crap off the internet. U will not give it to children at halloween how stupid are you????? [sic]&amp;quot; commented Cathy Creamer, sparking 23 replies, including debates as to whether Halloween is a satanist holiday, whether Christmas has its roots in paganism, and whether the board communicates with the devil directly or spirits in general. (People remain divided, though Hasbro, the company that makes the game, describes it as speaking to the &amp;quot;spirit world.&amp;quot;) It also prompted one fan to ask, &amp;quot;Who the f*ck is Deval?&amp;quot;       Some people privately messaged Delish, telling us they would no longer follow the brand after posting the cake video. Others posted photos of cakes decorated to look like the Bible, as an alternative for those who were offended by the board.       The comment wars inspired some additional research into Ouija boards, particularly after so many people commented about how the cake would invite demons into people&amp;#039;s homes (and, perhaps, stomachs?). While the game&amp;#039;s been around since 1891, it really wasn&amp;#039;t until The Exorcist hit theaters in the 1970s that it went from a &amp;#039;spiritual&amp;#039; game to one associated with the devil, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Before the film, the game was considered hokey. It even appeared in an episode of I Love Lucy, where Lucy and Ethel host a seance, but after The Exorcist portrayed a young girl possessed by a demon after playing with a Ouija board (based loosely on actual events, reports say), the game became no joke.  &amp;quot;[The Exorcist] actually changed the fabric of pop culture,&amp;quot; Robert Murch, a Ouija historian, told Smithsonian Magazine.  The cake, with its sugar cookie planchette, didn&amp;#039;t deter everyone from ever watching a Delish video again\u2014or making their own devil&amp;#039;s food cake topped with salted caramel frosting. Some of the most memorable responses have been the ones where people got in on the joke, like Alexis Earls, who tagged a friend and asked, &amp;quot;would you eat it or would it curse your insides to the demons ... if it hasnt already ;) [sic]?&amp;quot; To which the friend replied: &amp;quot;Um hell no, I get that from most everything I eat already lol.&amp;quot;           After baking this cake, we can only imagine what kind of controversy&amp;#039;s stirred up when we unleash our Settlers of Catan cupcakes next month.  Follow Delish on Instagram. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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