Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, german chocolate sheet cake with coconut-pecan frosting. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
German chocolate cake is typically made as a chocolate layer cake with a sweet frosting loaded with shredded coconut and pecans. It's basically a snackable sheet cake. While the classic recipe uses a light, sweetened chocolate to flavor the cake, I prefer using a combo of unsweetened.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook german chocolate sheet cake with coconut-pecan frosting using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting:
- Get 2 Cups Flour
- Get 2 Cups Sugar
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Butter
- Prepare 1 Cup Water
- Take 4 oz Baking Chocolate (I used 1/4 c Cocoa Powder and 4 tsp oil)
- Get 1/2 Cup Shortening
- Get 1/2 Cup Buttermilk (I used 1/2 Cup Vanilla Yogurt)
- Get 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- Take 2 Eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla
- Take ~Icing Ingredients~*
- Prepare 1 Cup Evaporated Milk
- Take 1 Cup Sugar
- Get 3 Egg Yolks
- Take 1/2 Cup Butter
- Prepare 1 1/3 Cup Sweetened Shredded Coconut
- Make ready 1 Cup Chopped Pecans
- Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla
The recipe came from the Kraft website, and from a recipe I found on the side of a I, personally, am not a huge fan of coconut, but the people I made the cake for are. I used light coconut which has less fat and looks more finely. Make a delicious homemade German chocolate cake, a layer cake with coconut pecan frosting. (Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.) This is a recipe for German chocolate cake from scratch, with a coconut pecan frosting and filling. This German chocolate cake has a gooey coconut and toasted pecan filling, a dark chocolate cake, and deliciously It's pretty sweet by itself, but when paired with coconut pecan filling AND chocolate frosting, it makes my teeth hurt.
Steps to make German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Spray a 15x10x1 inch baking sheet with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, measure flour and sugar. Set aside.
- In a medium sauce pan, combine butter, water, German Chocolate baking chocolate and shortening. Bring to a boil. After mixture reaches a boil, add it to the flour mixture and stir to combine.
- Add buttermilk, then baking soda, then eggs, then vanilla in that order, mixing in-between each addition.
- Pour into prepared pan and bake at 400 degrees F for 20 minutes
- ~Frosting Directions~*
- In a medium sauce pan over medium high heat combine milk, sugar egg yolks, and butter. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to medium. Stir constantly for about 12 minutes until thickened. Remove from heat and add coconut and pecans. Stir in vanilla. Spread over cake evenly and drizzle with hot fudge.
- FOR BEST RESULTS Put in Freezer for 30 minutes after frosting the cake. It will cool the icing but the cake will be slightly warm and melt in your mouth
And that says a lot considering I have a mouthful of sweet teeth!! A classic German Chocolate cake with tender German chocolate cake, coconut pecan filling and chocolate frosting! Sure, a moist German chocolate cake is rich and decadent on its own, but no chocolate cake is complete without frosting. Our Coconut-Pecan Frosting Recipe is the perfect German chocolate cake icing. To assemble the cake, slice each cake in half horizontally.
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