Ingredients: |
Ingredients: Cake:
1 (4-oz.) pkg. Baker's German Sweet Chocolate
1 C. butter or margarine
2 C. sugar
½ C. boiling water
5 egg yolks
2-1/2 C. sifted Swans Down Cake Flour
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1 tsp. baking soda
1 C. buttermilk
½ tsp. salt
5 egg whites
COCONUT-PECAN FILLING AND FROSTING:
1 C. evaporated milk OR heavy cream 1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1 C. sugar 1⅓ C. Baker's Angel Flake coconut
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten can)
1/2 C. butter or margarine
1 C. pecans, chopped
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Directions: |
Directions:Cake:
Preheat oven to 350º (not "cakes" setting). Melt chocolate in boiling water; cool. (Can use microwave for this step). Sift flour with soda and salt. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition. Blend in vanilla and melted chocolate. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating after each addition until smooth.
Beat egg whites until they form stiff peaks; fold into batter. Pour batter into three 9-inch layer pans which have been lined on bottoms with wax paper. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly pressed in center. Cool cake in pans for 15 minutes, then remove and cool on rack. Spread Coconut-Pecan Filling and
Frosting between layers and over top of cake. This is a delicate cake, and it will have a flat, slightly sugary top crust which tends to crack. This is normal.
Frosting:
New instructions: Verify 12 T. butter (1 ½ sticks). Whisk yolks in medium saucepan. Gradually whisk in evaporated milk. Add sugar, butter, and salt. Cook and whisk over medium heat until boiling, frothy, and slightly thickened (6-12 minutes, appx. 200º). Whisk in vanilla. Let cool. Add coconut. Add pecans right before spreading on cool cake.
Mom managed to frost the sides too. To frost all of it the way that Mom did, we increase the ingredients
enough to make an additional 1/2 recipe. |
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Notes: |
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Notes: This traditional recipe is getting harder to find. It was published in 1958 on the
Baker's Sweet Chocolate package, but new packages have a simplified 2-layer. Mom
made this for Thanksgiving and Christmas. She sometimes noted that this messed up
every pan in the kitchen. We think it is worth it, and believe that she felt that way too!
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