Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, german chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
German chocolate cake, originally German's chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake from the United States filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. German chocolate cake, traditionally made with sweet baking chocolate, is known to be unapologetically decadent and indulgent. It's pretty sweet by itself, but when paired with coconut.
German Chocolate Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. German Chocolate Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook german chocolate cake using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make German Chocolate Cake:
- Get Cake
- Get 1 (4 oz) Package baker's German sweet chocolate
- Make ready 1/2 cup boiling water
- Make ready 1 cup butter
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Take 4 eggs, separated
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
- Get 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking soda
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 1 cup buttermilk
- Take Frosting
- Get 1 1/2 cups evaporated milk
- Take 1 1/2 cups sugar
- Make ready 4 slightly beaten egg yolks
- Make ready 3/4 cup butter
- Take 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 2 cups shredded coconut
- Get 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
A spectacular German Chocolate cake made from scratch, using cake flour. This upside-down version of German chocolate cake is both quicker and easier then the traditional right side-up cake. A German Chocolate Cake is an impressive looking cake. Three layers of moist chocolate cake that are stacked, one on top of another, with a sweet and gooey caramel flavored frosting.
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!
Truly though, this easy German Chocolate Cake is one of those desserts that's so good it should become a tradition in your home for a yearly holiday like a birthday, Easter or Mother's Day. German Chocolate Cake is a layered chocolate cake that is both filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. The filling and/or topping is usually a buttery custard made with egg yolks and. I have long associated German Chocolate Cake with Father's Day, although I'm not entirely sure why. I think I remember my mom making it for my dad once or twice growing up (although never on.
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