German Sweet Chocolate Cake
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 12
- 4 ounces german sweet chocolate (i have used good quality semi sweet)
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 cup butter
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten
- 1 cup evaporated milk
- 3 slightly beaten egg yolks
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/3 cups flaked coconut
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Recipe
- 1 melt chocolate in boiling water. cool.
- 2 cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
- 3 add yolks one at a time beating well after each.
- 4 blend in vanilla and chocolate.
- 5 sift flour with soda and salt. add aternately with buttermilk to chocolate mixture beating after each addition until smooth.
- 6 fold in beaten egg whites.
- 7 pour equal amounts into three 9-inch layer pans that have been buttered and floured.
- 8 bake at 350f for 30 - 35 minutes.
- 9 cool on wire rack.
- 10 topping: cook all ingredients except coconut and pecans. cook and stir over medium heat until thickened, about 12 minutes.
- 11 then stir in flaked coconut and chopped pecans.
- 12 makes about 2 1/2 cups.
- 13 use to top and fill cooled layers.
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