German Chocolate Cake - Pasteles D' Lulú

This German Chocolate Cake Recipe is exquisite, the chocolate cake is delicious, and the frosting is wonderful. It’s the perfect combination to enjoy with our whole family!

I invite you to prepare this German Chocolate Cake and Frosting recipe!

Ingredients:

To make the german chocolate cake Recipe, several ingredients are required. Still, all of them are very easy to get and we probably even have them at home already, so let’s start making this wonderful German chocolate cake recipe.

For the Cake:

1 cup of boiling water
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of whipping cream
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder with 1 teaspoon of salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
2 eggs

Preparation:

Let’s start by making the Buttermilk. We will do this with whipped cream and lemon juice.

Let’s add the lemon juice to the whipped cream.

We will stir with a spatula or spoon, and we will see immediately that the whipping cream starts to cut. That is what we are looking for.

Now we are going to sift the dry ingredients, starting with the flour.

Then we sieve the cocoa.

Then we will sift the baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Here I am going to sift the sugar because I am using brown sugar, and sometimes it brings up little bits of waste that, when sifted, stay in the sieve and not in the mixture.

But if you are using white sugar and it is totally clean, you can integrate it directly into the mixture without sifting it.

When all the dry ingredients have been sifted, we will mix them very well with a spatula.

We will make a hole in the middle of the dry ingredients to integrate the wet ingredients.

We add the eggs.

We add buttercream.

Then we add the oil.

Then we add the vanilla extract.

And we are going to mix all the ingredients with a spatula and then go on to beat the mixture with an electric or hand mixer.

We beat with the mixer for a few minutes.

We beat until all the ingredients are well mixed.

Then we will add the hot water, little by little, in three parts.

We add a little water and beat until it integrates well, then we put another part of the water without stopping beating, and when it is already integrated into the mixture, we put the rest of the hot water.

We’ll see that the mixture becomes very liquid. That’s okay in this recipe. That’s how it is supposed to be.

We will prepare the molds that we will use. We will grease them and put wax paper on the base to facilitate the cake’s unmoulding since this cake is very soft.

We put the dough in the molds.

The recipe says that this dough is for 2 molds of 20 cms. each (about 8 inches), and my molds are 25 cms. (about 10 inches) To get the 2 cakes I need for this recipe, I doubled the number of ingredients I used.

We take the molds with the dough to the oven, previously heated to 180°C (356°F), for approximately 50 to 60 minutes, or until we introduce a toothpick into the center of the cake, it comes out clean.

With this german chocolate cake recipe, we will obtain some very soft cakes, so to unmold them, we must wait until they are almost cold because there is a risk that they will crumble a little bit and that they will leave crumbs in the mold.

To soak them, they must be totally cold.

Now we are going to make the german chocolate cake frosting

Ingredients:

For the German chocolate cake frosting:

2 cans of evaporated milk
2 cups of sugar
2 cups of grated coconut
1 cup of chopped walnut
2 bars of unsalted butter, 90 grs. each (0.20 lbs)
2 tablespoons of vanilla

Preparation:

Put a pan on the stove at medium heat and add the chopped butter.

We stir it, preferably with a wooden spoon, to prevent it from burning.

When the butter is almost completely melted, we add the sugar and continue stirring to integrate very well.

Then we will add the evaporated milk, and we will continue beating with the wooden spoon.

Then we add the vanilla while stirring.

We put the grated coconut.

Then we add the nut and keep stirring.

It will take 20 to 30 minutes in total throughout the process to obtain the desired consistency of this delicious frosting.

We must wait until the frosting cools down a bit, that it is warm or almost at room temperature, to be able to soak our cake. Otherwise, all the frosting will fall off.

This cake and frosting are really tasty and ideal to be enjoyed in any season and last several days with a spectacular smoothness.

It will become a little hard if you refrigerate it, but when you take it out of the refrigerator again about 20 or 30 minutes before eating it, it will be soft and delicious again.