How to Make Homemade Nana's Chocolate Cake

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

The ingredients needed to make Nana's Chocolate Cake:

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