Germans Sweet Chocolate Cake
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Germans Sweet Chocolate Cake (VRP 090)
Ingredients
- 1 package Baker's GERMAN's Sweet Chocolate
- ½ cup boiling water
- 1 cup butter **
- 4 egg yolks, unbeaten
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2½ cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten
- **Or use margarine or other shortening.
Instructions
- Melt chocolate in boiling water.
- Cool.
- Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add egg yolks, one at a time, and beat well after each.
- Add melted chocolate and vanilla.
- Mix well.
- Sift together salt, soda, and flour.
- Add alternately with buttermilk to chocolate mixture, beating well. Beat until smooth.
- Fold in beaten egg whites.
- Pour into three 8- or 9-inch cake layer pans, lined on bottoms with paper.
- Bake in moderate oven (350°F.) 30 to 40 minutes.
- Cool.
- Frost tops only.
Coconut-Pecan Frosting
- Combine 1 cup evaporated milk, 1 cup sugar, 3 egg yolks, ¼ pound margarine, and 1 teaspoon vanilla.
- Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened, about 12 minutes.
- Add 1⅓ cups Baker's Angel Flake Coconut and 1 cup chopped pecans.
- Beat until thick enough to spread. (Makes 2 2/3 cups.)