Are you ready to make one of the most delicious and mouth-watering cake recipes ever? This German Chocolate Cake will have you craving more before you even finish your first piece!
German Chocolate Cake is one of those cakes that everyone loves but no one really wants to make. They might feel that it’s too complicated or too hard…or a whole other list of reasons that we just don’t know. But honestly this cake recipe isn’t hard.
Did you know that German chocolate cake is named after Samuel German the inventor of a type of dark chocolate? We need to give that man a big thank you!! German chocolate cake originally German’s chocolate cake is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. I could eat the frosting with a spoon..
Were those your excuses for not wanting to make this cake? Well let me tell you if we can make this recipe so can you!
It’s a simple process to make a cake that might look like it took forever but in all reality it didn’t. And when you take that first bite…you know it’s all been 100% worth it. And like anything once you make this recipe once and then again it gets easier and easier and pretty soon you will make it with your eyes closed.
Ingredients
Cake:
4 oz. German chocolate baking chocolate (use semi-sweet if you can’t find German)
1/2 cup water
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature
4 large eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups milk I used 2 %
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
Coconut-Pecan Frosting
1 cup unsalted butter melted
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar packed
2 cups evaporated milk
6 egg yolks
2 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cups coconut flakes
2 1/2 cups pecans chopped
Instructions
