German Chocolate Layer Cake with Coconut Pecan Frosting
Prep Time: 1 hourhour
Cook Time: 45 minutesminutes
Total Time: 1 hourhour45 minutesminutes
Servings: 12
Looking for a delicious chocolate layer cake? You have to try this decadent German Chocolate Layer Cake with Coconut Pecan Frosting. This is so much more than just a chocolate cake. One bite and you will think you are in heaven.
Ingredients
4ouncessemi-sweet baking chocolate
½cupwater
2cupsgranulated sugar
1cupunsalted butter, softened to room temperature
4large eggs
1 ½teaspoonsvanilla
1cup2 % milk
2 ¼cupsall-purpose flour
1teaspoonbaking soda
1teaspoonsalt
Coconut-Pecan Frosting
1cupunsalted butter, melted
1cupgranulated sugar
1cupbrown sugar, packed
2cupsevaporated milk
6egg yolks
2teaspoonsvanilla
2 ½cupscoconut flakes
2cupspecans, chopped
Instructions
Cake
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt chocolate with the water in a small saucepan over medium-low heat until just melted.
In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Pour in the melted chocolate and mix together.
Next, mix in the eggs, vanilla and milk until well combined.
Add the flour, baking soda and salt to the mixing bowl and stir or mix into the batter until just combined.
Spray 3 8-inch cake pans with non-stick cooking spray. For extra coverage, line the bottom of the pans with an 8 inch circle of parchment paper.
Pour batter evenly between the three pans and then bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothipick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Cool and make frosting.
After frosting has cooled, assemble the cake:
Coconut-Pecan Frosting
Melt butter and then add in granulated sugar, brown sugar, evaporated milk and vanilla. Whisk until well combined.
Mix in egg yolks.
Cook over medium heat, frequently stirring, until mixture thickens and is bubbly. This should be 10-12 minutes.
Add in coconut and pecans and stir to combine.
Remove from stovetop and cool for at least 30 minutes, stirring now and then.