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Nana's Funny Cake Recipe

Nana's funny cake on a plate with vanilla ice cream
Photo Credit
Becky Luigart-Stayner
Yield
Makes 2 pies.
Category
Cakes and Frostings
Course
Desserts

Nana鈥檚 Funny Cake is the perfect dessert for a family gathering or weekend party. The piecrust adds a unique twist to a traditional cake recipe. This cake has a delicious chocolate-y layer on the bottom and a crunchy chocolate layer on top.

This recipe comes courtesy of Mary Lou Knauss of Duncannon, Pennsylvania.

鈥淢y mother-in-law made this Pennsylvania Dutch recipe for years. She brought it to the family cabin whenever we spent weekends together, and it has always been a family favorite! She shared the recipe with me when I got married, along with some of her other wonderful recipes. It continues to be a requested dessert.鈥

Crust:

Ingredients
2 unbaked 9-inch piecrusts

Cake:

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1陆 cups sugar
1 cup milk
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened, or shortening
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs

Topping:

Ingredients
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup hot water
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350掳F. Line two pie plates with piecrust. 
  2. For cake: In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, milk, butter, baking powder, salt, and eggs. Pour half into each pie crust. 
  3. For topping: In a bowl, combine sugar, hot water, cocoa powder, and vanilla. Pour half of topping over each pie.
  4. Bake for 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. 

Note: During baking, the chocolate 鈥渢opping鈥 sinks to the bottom of the cake, forming a chocolate layer seen in the picture above.

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Comments

Denise Tornick (not verified)

5 years 6 months ago

I think that grandma did what a lot of people do with a treasured old recipe, they leave out ingredients or steps. LOL!

martha (not verified)

5 years 6 months ago

the recipe is complete. You pour the vanilla batter into the pie shells, then pour the chocolate "sauce" on the vanilla batter. When it bakes, since the chocolate sauce is denser; it sinks and becomes the bottom.

Jennifer (not verified)

5 years 6 months ago

The cake is suppose to have a chocolate bottom layer which is not included in the recipe

When you add the cake batter it settles on the bottom, the chocolate sauce is on top, and as it bakes, it reverses.

Can you provide full recipe?