Chocolate Cake Recipes

Ingredients

Cake:
2 sticks butter
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. brandy (optional)
1/4 tsp. Salt
3 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 1/4 cups milk
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Glaze:
11/2 squares unsweetened baking chocolate
2 Tbsp. butter confectioners’ sugar 1 tsp. vanilla

Method

1. Cream butter, shortening, sugar, vanilla, brandy and salt.
2. Sift flour, baking powder and cocoa.
3. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with 1 1/4 cups of milk. Beat well.
4. Fold in pecans/walnuts.
5. Pour batter into a well-greased 10-inch tube pan or two 9 x5x 3-inch loaf pans. Bake in a preheated 325° oven for about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Be sure to test for doneness with a cake tester.

Glaze:
In a saucepan, melt baking chocolate with butter. Remove from burner; add enough confectioners’ sugar and hot water to make glaze thin enough to drizzle on cake, adding 1 tsp. vanilla last.

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