Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, german chocolate sheet cake with coconut-pecan frosting. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a 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 get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook german chocolate sheet cake with coconut-pecan frosting using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting:
- Get 2 Cups Flour
- Prepare 2 Cups Sugar
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Butter
- Make ready 1 Cup Water
- Prepare 4 oz Baking Chocolate (I used 1/4 c Cocoa Powder and 4 tsp oil)
- Take 1/2 Cup Shortening
- Get 1/2 Cup Buttermilk (I used 1/2 Cup Vanilla Yogurt)
- Take 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- Get 2 Eggs
- Get 1 tsp Vanilla
- Take ~Icing Ingredients~*
- Make ready 1 Cup Evaporated Milk
- Get 1 Cup Sugar
- Prepare 3 Egg Yolks
- Get 1/2 Cup Butter
- Prepare 1 1/3 Cup Sweetened Shredded Coconut
- Get 1 Cup Chopped Pecans
- Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla
To assemble the cake, slice each cake in half horizontally. Sprinkle the top with toasted coconut and pecans. This cake is not for people watching their calories or fat!! The recipe came from the Kraft website, and from a recipe I found on the side of a I, personally, am not a huge fan of coconut, but the people I made the cake for are.
Instructions 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
I used light coconut which has less fat and looks more finely. Homemade German Chocolate Cake is always a favorite. 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.
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