German Chocolate Cake

Name: German Chocolate Cake
Cuisine: European, German
Ingredients: 1/2 cup hot coffee; 4 oz chopped german chocolate; 2 1/4 cup flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp salt; 2 cups sugar; 1 1/2 cup room temp butter; 4 large eggs seperated; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 cup buttermilk; Frosting goop for spreading; 2 containers of coconut pecan frosting

9 steps

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 04:03:38 GMT

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Ingredients

12 servings

½ cupcoffee

hot

4 ozgerman chocolate

chopped

2 ¼ cupflour

1 tspbaking soda

1 tspsalt

2 cupssugar

1 ½ cupbutter

room temp

4eggs

large, seperated

1 tspvanilla

1 cupbuttermilk

Frosting goop

for spreading

2 containerscoconut pecan frosting

Instructions

Step 1

1) Preheat oven to 350 and thoroughly spray baking pans and line the pan with parchment paper

OvenPreheat

Step 2

2) Add coffee and chocolate in a sauce pan over low heat. Stir until the chocolate is melted then remove from heat

Step 3

3) In a bowl stir together flour, baking soda, and salt

Step 4

4) In a seperate bowl, beat 1 cup butter and 2 cups sugar till fluffy

Step 5

5) Beat 1 egg yolk at a time (keep the whites) into the butter mixture on medium speed

Step 6

6) Beat in the melted chocolate and 1 tsp vanilla. Beat in half the flour mixture, then beat in half the buttermilk. Repeat. This whole time being on low speed.

Step 7

7) In a small bowl, beat the egg whites till stiff peaks form. Fold into batter.

Step 8

8) Bake 50-60 minutes

Step 9

9) Spread coconut goop on while cake is hot. Let cool, and top with frosting