Recipe: Perfect German chocolate cake

German chocolate cake. Hand frosted with coconut-filled icing, and topped with smooth chocolate ganache drizzle. This German chocolate cake recipe is one of Betty Crocker's most popular desserts, and for good reason. The step-by-step instructions clearly walk you through the process you need to create a homemade masterpiece.

Grease waxed paper and set aside. In small saucepan, melt chocolate with water over low heat; cool. Whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a small bowl; set aside. You can have German chocolate cake using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of German chocolate cake

1. You need 6 cups of flour.
2. Prepare 10 of eggs.
3. You need 1 of tbpn of baking powder.
4. It's 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
5. Prepare 2 cups of cocoa powder.
6. You need 2 cups of powdered milk.
7. You need 1 cup of oil.
8. You need 1 cup of boiling water.
9. Prepare 1 of tbpn of vanilla flavour.
10. Prepare 1 teaspoon of salt.
11. You need 2 of and half cups of sugar.
12. Prepare of For the butter cream:.
13. You need 2 of icing sugar.
14. Prepare 3 of simas butter.
15. Prepare 5 of tbpn of powdered milk.
16. It's of Sprinkle's.
17. You need of Blue colour.
18. It's of Brown colour.
19. You need of Chocolate syrup.

HOW TO MAKE GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE. Start by creating the two layers of moist chocolate cake! Upon researching for hours for a German Chocolate cake recipe worth the time to make and choosing this one, I bought the "Bakers" German sweet chocolate bar for use in this cake. After opening the box of chocolate, there are recipes in there for frosting, cake and a few others using this chocolate.

German chocolate cake step by step

1. In a bowl add all the dry ingredient's and mix them well..
2. Add eggs, oil, milk(mix the milk with one cup of water) and vanilla. Beat on medium speed of mixer for 2mins..
3. Pour the mixture into the dry ingredients and add 1 cup of warm water and mix it well. Pour batter into prepared pans..
4. Bake for 40 to 45mins..
5. For the butter frosting: combine butter and icing sugar and mix it well till becomes fluffy. Then add the powdered milk and mix it well..
6. For the chocolate frosting, I used 1 cup of icing sugar, 1 tbpn of powdered milk, 2 tbpn of cocoa powder, 1 cup of butter and half cup of chocolate syrup. Mix them all till becomes very fluffy..
7. Decorates your cake as desired..

The name German chocolate cake is a little deceiving as it is not actually a German dessert and traditionally the cake is a lighter colored cake with a mild chocolate taste and the entire cake is usually covered in coconut pecan frosting. I am so excited to share this cake with you today. It's been a long time coming! I've got a German Chocolate Cheesecake and German Chocolate Cookie Stacks, but no actual cake. I actually first made this cake a couple years ago, but wasn't completely happy with it so it got pushed aside until now.