Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, german chocolate sheet cake with coconut-pecan frosting. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. 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 particular recipe, we must first 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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting:
- Get 2 Cups Flour
- Get 2 Cups Sugar
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Butter
- Prepare 1 Cup Water
- Take 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)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- Take 2 Eggs
- Get 1 tsp Vanilla
- Take ~Icing Ingredients~*
- Prepare 1 Cup Evaporated Milk
- Take 1 Cup Sugar
- Make ready 3 Egg Yolks
- Take 1/2 Cup Butter
- Take 1 1/3 Cup Sweetened Shredded Coconut
- Take 1 Cup Chopped Pecans
- Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla
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. A classic German Chocolate cake with tender German chocolate cake, coconut pecan filling and chocolate frosting! Real german chocolate cake made with sweet baker's chocolate, tangy buttermilk and filled with rich coconut pecan filling.
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
How to make Authentic German chocolate cake with coconut pecan frosting and creamy chocolate swiss meringue buttercream. To assemble the cake, slice each cake in half horizontally. Sprinkle the top with toasted coconut and pecans. Cool to room temperature and of spreading consistency. Spread the coconut-pecan between each of the layers My German Chocolate cake sags in the middle!
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