Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, german chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
German Chocolate Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. German Chocolate Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have german chocolate cake using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make German Chocolate Cake:
- Make ready Cake
- Prepare 1 (4 oz) Package baker's German sweet chocolate
- Make ready 1/2 cup boiling water
- Take 1 cup butter
- Get 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 4 eggs, separated
- Get 1 tsp vanilla
- Prepare 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 cup buttermilk
- Take Frosting
- Take 1 1/2 cups evaporated milk
- Get 1 1/2 cups sugar
- Make ready 4 slightly beaten egg yolks
- Make ready 3/4 cup butter
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Get 2 cups shredded coconut
- Take 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
HOW TO MAKE GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE. Start by creating the two layers of moist chocolate cake! Upon researching for hours for a German Chocolate cake recipe worth the time to make and choosing this one, I bought the "Bakers" German sweet chocolate bar for use in this cake. After opening the box of chocolate, there are recipes in there for frosting, cake and a few others using this chocolate.
Instructions to make German Chocolate Cake:
- Melt chocolate with water, you can do this by combining ingredients and microwaving them in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 30-second intervals stirring in-between.
- Cream butter and sugar. Next beat in egg yolks.
- Stir in chocolate and vanilla. In a separate bowl mix in flour baking soda and salt.
- Beat in flour mixture, alternating with the buttermilk.
- In a large bowl, beat egg white until stiff peaks form, fold into batter.
- Pour batter into a greased/nonstick 9x13 pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Oven temp: 350 degrees.
- While the cake is cooking in the oven, combine evaporated milk, sugar, slightly beaten egg yolks, butter or margarine, and vanilla in a saucepan. It should take about 20 minutes. Stir constantly. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened. Remove from heat.
- Stir in shredded coconut and chopped pecans. Cool until thick enough to spread. Makes 4-1/4 cups.
- Once everything is cool, frost cake and enjoy!
The name German chocolate cake is a little deceiving as it is not actually a German dessert and traditionally the cake is a lighter colored cake with a mild chocolate taste and the entire cake is usually covered in coconut pecan frosting. I am so excited to share this cake with you today. It's been a long time coming! I've got a German Chocolate Cheesecake and German Chocolate Cookie Stacks, but no actual cake. I actually first made this cake a couple years ago, but wasn't completely happy with it so it got pushed aside until now.
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