If you want to make a homemade chocolate cake from scratch, this is a simple, yet easy recipe to make. German chocolate cake…” The batter was baked in 3 greased and floured 8-inch layer pans or 2 square 9 or 10 inch pans” and the coconut-pecan frosting spread between layers and on top only.” In the following year, a version of German Sweet Chocolate Cake” in the April 6, 1957 issue (p. 13) of the Hutchinson News-Herald (KS) repeated the basics of the German chocolate cake and coconut-pecan filling, but added a chocolate icing made from chocolate chips, marshmallows, sugar, cream, and butter.
Having recently become a gushing owner of a Kitchenaid mixer, I gravitate towards recipes that encourage its use so was avoiding this ‘food processor’ one (totally love the ‘ease’ element but somehow bunging everything in the food processor doesn’t satisfy my inner baker).
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