German Chocolate Pound Cake Surprise Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200°C.
• Line the bottom of two round cake pans with wax paper.
• Melt the chocolate squares until they are completely melted. Stir well.
• Mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
• Beat margarine (butter) and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Stir in chocolate mixture and vanilla. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating after each addition until smooth.
• Beat egg whites in another large bowl with electric mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form. Gently stir into batter.
• Pour into prepared pans.
• Bake 30 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched in center. Immediately run spatula between the cake and sides of the pan.
• Cool 15 minutes and remove from the pan. Remove wax paper. Cool completely on wire racks.
• Spread Coconut-Pecan Frosting between layers and over top of cake.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan.
• Cream shortening at medium speed of mixer.
• Gradually add sugar until well mixed.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg.
• Blend in vanilla extract.
• Combine flour, baking soda and salt.
• Add alternately with buttermilk to the creamed mixture.
• Continue mixing well.
• Mix in the melted chocolate last.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for about 90 minutes or until cake tests done.
• Cool cake in pan on rack for about ten minutes, then turn out and let cake cool completely.
• You may sprinkle with confectioners sugar or top with chocolate glaze.
• For glaze, microwave chocolate and butter together, in a medium sized bowl, until melted.
• Mix in confectioners sugar and just enough water to make a smooth glaze.
• Pour glaze over cake and let trickle down the sides.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat your oven to 300F. Grease and flour a bundt pan and set aside. In the bowl of your standing mixer, cream sugar & butter well, then add eggs one at a time letting it blend after each egg addition. Then add flavors and buttermilk blend together.
• 2. Remove wrapper from chocolate and melt the chocolate in the top of a double broiler over hot water. * I have also placed the chocolate in a small ceramic dish in the oven a couple of minutes to soften, but watch it.
• 3. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt and blend. Then add flour mixture to the buttermilk mixture, Then add the softened german chocolate to the batter. Blend well. Pour into Prepared bundt pan. Bake 1 hour 30 minutes or until cake tests done in the middle.
• 4. Let cool 5 minutes then remove cake from pan, and place under a tight fitting cake cover and leave covered until cold. This is delicious warm as well! Just letting ya know! 8) Enjoy!

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking soda and salt together and set aside. Grease and flour tube or bundt pan and set aside. Preheat oven to 300º
• Place chocolate in microwave safe bowl and heat for 10-15 seconds (just until partially melted). Set aside.
• Place softened butter in large mixing bowl and beat at medium speed until fluffy. Continue beating while you add the sugar gradually.
• Add eggs one at a time while you continue beating. Add the vanilla extract and mix well.
• Continue beating as you add flour mixture and buttermilk gradually, beginning with flour and ending with flour.
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• When flour and buttermilk have been well blended into butter mixture, turn beater down to low and gradually blend in chocolate.
• Transfer to pan and bake at 300º for about 1-1/2 hours (until toothpick stuck in densest part of cake comes out clean). Let rest in pan for about 5 minutes, then turn out onto serving dish. #1 Option - want to coat with a glaze, an easy one follows. #2 Option - if you want to serve "as is" with just ice cream, cover and let it cool completely before cutting.
• Easy glaze: 1/4 cup lemon or orange juice 1-1/2 cup sugar Place in saucepan and heat over low temperature just until sugar is dissolved and mixture is well blended. Pour over warm cake.
• If you really want to be decadent, use my praline icing recipe.... https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/cake/fresh-apple-cake-with-praline-icing.html?p=3
• Another good icing for this cake is https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/dessert-chocolate/chocolate-mocha-frosting-sallye.html?p=3
• One more icing recipe you might like: https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/cake/coconut-pecan-frosting-sallye.html?r=1

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350°F. Spray the bottoms and sides of three 8-inch or two 9-inch round cake pans with the cooking spray. Cut three 8-inch or two 9-inch rounds of cooking parchment paper. Line bottoms of pans with the paper.
• Coarsely chop the chocolate. In a 1-quart saucepan, heat the chocolate and water over low heat, stirring frequently, until chocolate is completely melted; remove from heat and cool.
• Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, stir the flour, baking soda and salt until mixed; set aside. In another medium bowl, beat 2 cups sugar and 1 cup butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy; set aside.
• On medium speed, beat 1 egg yolk at a time into the sugar mixture until mixed. On low speed, beat in the melted chocolate and 1 teaspoon vanilla. On low speed, beat in 1/2 of the flour mixture just until smooth, then beat in 1/2 of the buttermilk just until smooth. Repeat beating in flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk just until smooth.
• Wash and dry mixer beaters. In a small bowl, beat the eggs whites on high speed until beaten eggs whites form stiff peaks when beaters are lifted. Add egg whites to the batter; to fold in, use a rubber spatula to cut down vertically through the batter, then slide the spatula across the bottom of the bowl and up the side, turning batter over. Rotate the bowl 1/4 turn, and repeat this down-across-up motion. Continue folding until batter and egg whites are blended.
• Pour batter into pans; use a rubber spatula to scrape batter from bowl, spread batter evenly in pans and smooth top of batter. (If batter is not divided evenly, spoon batter from one pan to another.) Refrigerate batter in third pan if not all pans will fit in oven at one time; bake third pan separately.
• Bake 8-inch pans 35 to 40 minutes, 9-inch pans 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool cakes in pans 10 minutes. To remove cake from pan, invert onto cooling rack, then invert right side up on second cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• In a 2-quart saucepan, stir the 3 egg yolks, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, the evaporated milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla until well mixed. Cook over medium heat about 12 minutes, stirring frequently, until thick and bubbly. Stir in the coconut and pecans. Cool about 30 minutes, beating occasionally with a spoon, until mixture is spreadable.
• Place 1 cake layer, rounded side down, on a cake plate; using a metal spatula, spread 1/3 of the filling over the layer. Add second layer, rounded side down; spread with 1/3 of the filling. Add third layer, rounded side up; spread with remaining filling, leaving side of cake unfrosted. Store cake covered in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In ungreased 9-inch round cake pan, mix topping ingredients. Spread evenly in pan.
• In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate and 1/4 cup water on High 1 minute to 1 minute 30 seconds or until chocolate is melted. Stir to blend.
• In medium bowl, beat granulated sugar and 1/2 cup butter with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and eggs until well blended. On low speed, beat in 3/4 cup of the flour and the milk. Add remaining 1/2 cup flour; beat well. Stir in chocolate mixture until blended. Pour batter over topping in pan.
• Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Run knife around edge of cake to loosen. Place serving plate upside down over cake in pan; turn plate and pan over. Remove pan. Serve warm or cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 12 cup tube pan or Bundt pan. Mix all ingredients (including the icing), in mixer at medium speed 2 minutes. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 55-60 minutes.
• Remove from oven to wire rack and allow cooling for 10 minutes. Invert onto serving plate and dust with powdered sugar or sift small amount cocoa over top of cake.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour 12 cup tube pan OR Bundt pan.
• Mix all ingredients (including the icing) in mixer at medium speed 2 minutes.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake 55 - 60 minutes.
• Remove from oven to wire rack and allow cooling for 10 minutes.
• Invert onto serving plate and dust with powdered sugar.

Steps:

• Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Line bottom of pan with waxed paper. Set aside.
• Place chocolate in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts. Let cool.
• Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add eggs and yolk, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add chocolate, mixing well.
• Combine flour and next 4 ingredients; add flour mixture to chocolate mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into pan. Bake at 350°F for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool on a wire rack. Pour sweet chocolate glaze over top of cake, if using.
• For the glaze:.
• Combine chocolate and butter in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts. Cool.
• Beat egg white (at room temperature) at high speed of an electric mixer 1 minmute or until stiff peaks form. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating until stiff peaks form and sugar dissolves,(2 to 4 minutes).
• Fold chocolate mixture into egg whites. Add water, stirring until smooth.