Nana's Chocolate Cake
Nana's Chocolate Cake

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have nana's chocolate cake using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nana's Chocolate Cake:
  1. Prepare For the Frosting:
  2. Make ready 2 cups sugar
  3. Prepare 6 Tbl Cocoa
  4. Take 2/3 cup milk
  5. Take 1/2 cup shortening
  6. Make ready 1/8 tsp salt
  7. Make ready 2 tsp blackberry brandy
  8. Take For the cake:
  9. Take 3/4 unsalted butter (melted)
  10. Prepare 1 3/4 cup sugar
  11. Get 2 eggs
  12. Take 1 tsp blackberry brandy
  13. Make ready 2 cups flour
  14. Make ready 3/4 cup Cocoa
  15. Take 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
  16. Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
  17. Prepare 1 1/3 cup milk
Steps to make Nana's Chocolate Cake:
  1. For the cake:
  2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  3. Add eggs and brandy, beat until smooth and uniform.
  4. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Add alternately with the milk to the creamed mixture.
  5. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured (with cocoa) into 2 8" cake pans.
  6. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
  7. Cool. Frost with the icing in your fridge.
  8. For the frosting/icing:
  9. Mix all ingredients together except for the brandy in a medium pan and heat over high heat.
  10. Stir constantly until the mixture begins to boil.
  11. After 2 minutes of boiling and stirring constantly, remove from heat.
  12. After the mixture cools for a few minutes, add the brandy.
  13. Allow the mixture to cool thoroughly and then place into the refrigerator for several hours.

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