Wednesday, July 29, 2009

German Chocolate Cake

I've been wanting to bake a German chocolate cake for awhile now ever since watching an episode of Throwdown with Bobby Flay on Food Network on german chocolate cake throwdown against Make My Cake bakery in Harlem, NY (Bobby won for those you curious ones).

And I was given the perfect opportunity to when Sanjay asked me to bake a cake for a get-together to celebrate his friends Adam and Laura's engagement. They love chocolate and they are German. PERFECT! Although, German chocholate cake did not get its name because it's from Germany. According to our good ole trusty Wikipedia:


In any case, I wanted a better version of the traditional German Chocolate Cake. So rather than using Baker's German Chocolate, I used a high quality dark chocolate for deep chocolate flavor and buttermilk for perfectly moist, fluffy texture.

In between these three layers of chocolate cake is wonderfully sticky coconut pecan filling. And the cake got a light coating of airy chocolate frosting to enhance the deep chocolate flavor and add that extra something that just melts in your mouth as soon as you take a bite.

I wasn't able to make it to the party but I was happy to hear that everybody had a good time and enjoyed the cake too. Congratulations Adam and Laura!


  1. I look at this delicious, delicious site everytime there's a new post, show it to my cubemates, kick myself for not eating more of the last cake you made when I was around, then go to a cafe to eat because they make me so hungry :)

  2. i like how you included the history of the german chocolate cake. i didn't know that!