Recipe: Perfect Nana's Chocolate Cake

Nana's Chocolate Cake.

You can cook Nana's Chocolate Cake using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Nana's Chocolate Cake

1. Prepare of For the Frosting:.
2. Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
3. Prepare 6 Tbl of Cocoa.
4. Prepare 2/3 cup of milk.
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of shortening.
6. You need 1/8 tsp of salt.
7. Prepare 2 tsp of blackberry brandy.
8. It's of For the cake:.
9. It's 3/4 of unsalted butter (melted).
10. You need 1 3/4 cup of sugar.
11. Prepare 2 of eggs.
12. You need 1 tsp of blackberry brandy.
13. You need 2 cups of flour.
14. Prepare 3/4 cup of Cocoa.
15. You need 1 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
16. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
17. You need 1 1/3 cup of milk.

Nana's Chocolate Cake step by step

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..