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German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

German chocolate cake is typically made as a chocolate layer cake with a sweet frosting loaded with shredded coconut and pecans. It's basically a snackable sheet cake. While the classic recipe uses a light, sweetened chocolate to flavor the cake, I prefer using a combo of unsweetened.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have german chocolate sheet cake with coconut-pecan frosting using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting:

1. Get 2 Cups Flour
2. Make ready 2 Cups Sugar
3. Take 1/2 Cup Butter
4. Get 1 Cup Water
5. Make ready 4 oz Baking Chocolate (I used 1/4 c Cocoa Powder and 4 tsp oil)
6. Make ready 1/2 Cup Shortening
7. Prepare 1/2 Cup Buttermilk (I used 1/2 Cup Vanilla Yogurt)
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
9. Take 2 Eggs
10. Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla
11. Make ready ~Icing Ingredients~*
12. Get 1 Cup Evaporated Milk
13. Make ready 1 Cup Sugar
14. Take 3 Egg Yolks
15. Prepare 1/2 Cup Butter
16. Make ready 1 1/3 Cup Sweetened Shredded Coconut
17. Get 1 Cup Chopped Pecans
18. Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla

And that says a lot considering I have a mouthful of sweet teeth!! Homemade German Chocolate Cake is always a favorite. Two layers of tender chocolate cake topped with a decadent coconut pecan frosting. The ooey-gooey coconut pecan frosting just gets me every time.

Instructions to make German Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Spray a 15x10x1 inch baking sheet with cooking spray and set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, measure flour and sugar. Set aside.
4. In a medium sauce pan, combine butter, water, German Chocolate baking chocolate and shortening. Bring to a boil. After mixture reaches a boil, add it to the flour mixture and stir to combine.
5. Add buttermilk, then baking soda, then eggs, then vanilla in that order, mixing in-between each addition.
6. Pour into prepared pan and bake at 400 degrees F for 20 minutes
7. ~Frosting Directions~*
8. In a medium sauce pan over medium high heat combine milk, sugar egg yolks, and butter. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to medium. Stir constantly for about 12 minutes until thickened. Remove from heat and add coconut and pecans. Stir in vanilla. Spread over cake evenly and drizzle with hot fudge.
9. FOR BEST RESULTS Put in Freezer for 30 minutes after frosting the cake. It will cool the icing but the cake will be slightly warm and melt in your mouth

Truth be told, I could just eat it by the spoonful, but it's even better when it's paired. Homemade German Chocolate Cake with layers of coconut pecan frosting and chocolate frosting. A classic German Chocolate cake with tender German chocolate cake, coconut pecan filling and chocolate frosting! Our Coconut-Pecan Frosting is hands down the best German chocolate cake icing around. Sure, a moist German chocolate cake is rich and decadent on its own, but no chocolate cake is complete without frosting.

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