Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, german chocolate sheet cake with coconut-pecan frosting. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really 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 begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:
- Make ready 2 Cups Flour
- Take 2 Cups Sugar
- Get 1/2 Cup Butter
- Prepare 1 Cup Water
- Prepare 4 oz Baking Chocolate (I used 1/4 c Cocoa Powder and 4 tsp oil)
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Shortening
- Take 1/2 Cup Buttermilk (I used 1/2 Cup Vanilla Yogurt)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- Prepare 2 Eggs
- Take 1 tsp Vanilla
- Get ~Icing Ingredients~*
- Make ready 1 Cup Evaporated Milk
- Make ready 1 Cup Sugar
- Prepare 3 Egg Yolks
- Get 1/2 Cup Butter
- Get 1 1/3 Cup Sweetened Shredded Coconut
- Prepare 1 Cup Chopped Pecans
- Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla
Sprinkle the top with toasted coconut and pecans. Our Coconut-Pecan Frosting is hands down the best German chocolate cake icing around. Sure, a moist German chocolate cake is rich and decadent on its own, but no chocolate cake is complete without frosting. A classic German Chocolate cake with tender German chocolate cake, coconut pecan filling and chocolate frosting!
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
This birthday cake with a double layer of frosting is very tasty and tender. This cake is named German not because it was invented in Germany. To make this dessert more fragrant and give it a rich chocolate taste, mix strong coffee with melted chocolate. Use a powerful mixer to beat butter. Homemade German Chocolate Cake is always a favorite.
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