Baking any cake from scratch does take more time to prepare than a boxed cake mix. Plus, you need more ingredients on hand. Those ingredients often have a short expiration date and are likely to spoil before you use the full bottle, bag or can. This alone may be why so many people choose to make cakes with a cake mix instead of from scratch.
When you have the time and inclination, a homemade cake from scratch truly is a gift, as well as a special treat. My homemade German chocolate cake is the most requested cake out of all of my homemade cakes.
German Chocolate Cake Recipe
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Set out your butter to soften about an hour before you are ready to start mixing the cake together. I would also recommend lining your cake pans with parchment paper or pre-cut cake pan liners to keep your cake from sticking to the pan.
Because there are several parts of this recipe made in separate bowls and later combined into one large mixing bowl, I use mixing bowls with spouts for easy pouring.
I do use my stand mixer for this cake in order to free up both hands to hold bowls and/or spatulas when adding ingredients to the batter.
Ingredients
- 1 pkg. (4 oz.) BAKER'S GERMAN'S Sweet Chocolate
- ½ cup water
- 4 eggs, separated
- 2 cups & 4 Tablespoons cake flour or 2 cups of all purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup Prairie Farms Bulgarian style buttermilk or whole buttermilk
Directions
Cover bottoms of 3 (9-inch) round pans with parchment or pre-cut dry wax cake liners for pans; Coat bottom & sides with Crisco shortening.
Heat oven to 350°F (325°F – Convection)
- Microwave chocolate and water in large microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 to 2 min. or until chocolate is almost melted, stirring after 1 min. Stir until chocolate is completely melted.
- Separate Eggs (Egg whites in the medium glass mixing bowl)
- Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl
- Beat butter and sugar in large mixing bowl with mixer until light and fluffy
- Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating well after each.
- Blend in melted chocolate and vanilla with the low setting on the mixer
- Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating until well blended after each addition
- Beat egg whites in glass bowl with a hand mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form
- Add egg whites to batter by gently stirring them in with a spatula until well blended
- Pour batter into prepared cake pans
- Bake 25 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean
- Immediately run small spatula around cakes in pans and cool cakes in pans 15 min.
- Remove from pans to wire racks; cool completely.
- Be sure to remove the pan liner parchment paper from the bottom of the cake layers before frosting.
Top with Homemade Coconut-Pecan Frosting (click here for the recipe!)
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