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German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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.
To begin with this particular 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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting:
- Take 2 Cups Flour
- Make ready 2 Cups Sugar
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Butter
- Make ready 1 Cup Water
- Make ready 4 oz Baking Chocolate (I used 1/4 c Cocoa Powder and 4 tsp oil)
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Shortening
- Get 1/2 Cup Buttermilk (I used 1/2 Cup Vanilla Yogurt)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- Make ready 2 Eggs
- Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla
- Prepare ~Icing Ingredients~*
- Make ready 1 Cup Evaporated Milk
- Make ready 1 Cup Sugar
- Make ready 3 Egg Yolks
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Butter
- Take 1 1/3 Cup Sweetened Shredded Coconut
- Prepare 1 Cup Chopped Pecans
- Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla
And that says a lot considering I have a mouthful of sweet teeth!! 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. Homemade German Chocolate Cake is always a favorite.
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
Two layers of tender chocolate cake topped with a decadent coconut pecan frosting. The ooey-gooey coconut pecan frosting just gets me every time. Truth be told, I could just eat it by the spoonful, but it's even better when it's paired. To assemble the cake, slice each cake in half horizontally. Sprinkle the top with toasted coconut and pecans.
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