what is german chocolate cake?

Answer 1

Chocolate cake with a coconut icing...doesn't look white though.

Answer 2

It's just chocolate cake with a sweet coconut icing.

There's nothing German about it. It's called "German Chocolate Cake" because the company named German's Chocolate included the recipe in their baking chocolate.

Answer 3

German Chocolate Cake is actually an American creation. German cooking is famous for its complexity and extravagance in choosing the ingredients. Therefore such a rich dish as German Chocolate Cake might perfectly fit into German cuisine. Yet it was not brought (as is sometimes reported) to the American Midwest by German immigrants. The cake took its name from an American with the last name of "German." In 1852, Sam German created the mild dark baking chocolate bar for Baker's Chocolate Co. The product was named in his honor - "Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate." In most recipes and products today, the apostrophe and the "s" have been dropped, thus giving the false hint as for the chocolate's origin.

The first published recipe for German's chocolate cake showed up in a Dallas newspaper in 1957 and came from a Texas homemaker. The cake quickly gained popularity and its recipe together with the mouth-watering photos were spread all over the country. America fell in love with German Chocolate cake. No wonder: its superb chocolate taste conquers you at first bite!

Ever since the first recipe of German Chocolate Cake was published in 1957, there have been created a number of different versions of its cooking. Here is my favorite recipe:

Ingredients:
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1/2 cup German sweet chocolate
1/2 cup boiling water
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
4 egg yolks
4 egg whites, stiffly beaten
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk

Cooking:
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Melt chocolate in boiling water. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy, add egg yolks, vanilla, and chocolate. Add dry ingredients
alternately with buttermilk. Fold in egg whites. Pour into three pans, lined on bottoms with wax paper. Bake at 200 degrees C for 30-35 minutes. Frost tops with Coconut Pecan Frosting, leaving sides unfrosted.

Coconut Pecan Filling and Frosting:
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1 cup evaporated sweetened milk
3 egg yolks
1/2 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/3 cup coconut
1 cup chopped pecans

Combine all ingredients except for coconut and pecans in a saucepan. Stir in coconut and pecans. Let cool down.

Answer 4

It's delicious. During the holidays people fight over the last slice of my Grandma's German Chocolate cake.

Answer 5

A light milk-chocolate cake with a caramel-pecan-coconut icing. Which is ironic as pecans and coconut are not typically found in Germany. But it is quite delicious.

Answer 6

a lighter chocolate cake iced with a caramel coconut pecan icing. Great for breakfast!

Answer 7

It is a chocolate layer cake (not devilsfood) with a carmel, walnut coconut frosting. Check out this site for more info on it.

http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/germchoc.htm

Answer 8

chocolate cake with coconut topping

Answer 9

really dark, full of strong chocolate big double layer iced with rich chocolate & cherries, suicide to a diabetic

Answer 10

It is chocolate cake with a frosting consisiting of coconut,nuts,butter and some other things..It is good and i only like peanuts.................