Easy German Chocolate Cake Recipe

If you're thinking, "chocolate, pecans, coconut, delicious!", that's the recipe that's here.

This is an easy version of the recipe that was published in a Texas newspaper in the 1950's that used chocolate produced by Sam German (his name). It was called "Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate".

Over the years the "s" was dropped from "German's" and it became known as German Chocolate Cake.

Below, this German Chocolate Cake uses a cake mix with added chocolate to get that real "German Chocolate' taste.

However, are you looking for a traditional German Chocolate cake. Check out BEST chocolate recipe - Schokoladentorte. I think you'll think it's the BEST too!

Easy German Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

Cake:

1 package yellow cake mix
4 oz. Baker's German Sweet Chocolate, melted

Frosting:

1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
3 egg yolks
1/2 cup butter
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/3 cup coconut
1 cup chopped pecans

Instructions:

Cake:

Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease a 9 X 13 inch pan.
Prepare cake mix as directed on package, adding melted chocolate before beating.
Pour cake batter into pan and bake 35 minutes or until done.
Cool cake completely before frosting.

Frosting:

Combine evaporated milk, sugar, egg yolks, and butter in medium-sized saucepan.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens.
Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
With wooden spoon, beat in vanilla. Stir in coconut and pecans.
Frost cake.

Hints:

Use 2 8-inch or 9-inch pans and make a layered cake instead. Put some filling on bottom layer. Add top layer of cake and frost whole cake.
Use unsweetened chocolate if you like a not-too sweet cake.
Melt chocolate in microwave.

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