Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, german chocolate cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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German Chocolate Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. German Chocolate Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook german chocolate cake using 19 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make German Chocolate Cake:
- Prepare frosting
- Make ready chocolate chips
- Prepare whipping cream
- Take butter
- Get Cake
- Get egg yolks
- Take sugar
- Make ready vanilla extract
- Make ready all-purpose flour
- Make ready starch
- Take cocoa
- Prepare melted butter
- Take baking powder
- Make ready milk
- Make ready egg whites
- Take filling
- Take cherry pie filling
- Get Topping
- Get chocolate shavings (optional)
HOW TO MAKE GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE. Start by creating the two layers of moist chocolate cake! Upon researching for hours for a German Chocolate cake recipe worth the time to make and choosing this one, I bought the "Bakers" German sweet chocolate bar for use in this cake. After opening the box of chocolate, there are recipes in there for frosting, cake and a few others using this chocolate.
Steps to make German Chocolate Cake:
- In a pot, slowly heat the whipping cream. When almost at a boil remove from heat and add the butter and chocolate chips. Mix with a whisk until everything is melted and smooth. You can choose milk or semi sweet chocolate chips.
- Put cream in fridge until cooled completely.
- Preheat oven to 375°F
- With a mixer, whip egg yolks, vanilla and sugar until peaks form.
- Combine all dry ingredients. Starch can be substituted with 1/2 cup of flour.
- While mixing, add melded butter to egg yolks
- Alternating with the milk, add the dry ingredients while constantly mixing.
- Whip the egg whites until peaks form.
- With a whisk, carefully mix the egg whites with the batter.
- Grease the bottom of a round cake pan and fill in batter. Bake for 25-35 minutes. The cake is done when a toothpick test comes out clean.
- Remove cake from pan an put on cooling rack.
- Take cream out of fridge and whip with mixer until peaks form.
- Slice cake into 3 layers. Spread cherry pie filling on first layer.
- Put 2nd layer on top and spread a layer of frosting, about 1/4" thick on top. Finish with 3rd layer and dirty ice the cake.
- Finish frosting the cake with the remaining frosting and sprinkle with chocolate shavings.
The name German chocolate cake is a little deceiving as it is not actually a German dessert and traditionally the cake is a lighter colored cake with a mild chocolate taste and the entire cake is usually covered in coconut pecan frosting. I am so excited to share this cake with you today. It's been a long time coming! I've got a German Chocolate Cheesecake and German Chocolate Cookie Stacks, but no actual cake. I actually first made this cake a couple years ago, but wasn't completely happy with it so it got pushed aside until now.
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