German Chocolate Cake with Pecan Icing
Deliciously authentic and traditional throughout the decades. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- Chocolate Cake:
- 1 4oz. bar German Chocolate
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 1 cup margarine
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp soda
- 1 cup buttermilk
- Chocolate Cake Icing:
- 1/2 cups canned milk
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup margarine
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 2 2/3 cups Angel Flake Coconut
- 1 1/2 cups Millican Pecan Halves or Millican Pecan Pieces
Instructions
Cake: Melt chocolate in boiling water. Cream margarine and sugar. Add eggs one at a time (beating after each egg) and vanilla. Sift together flour, salt and soda. Add dry ingredients to batter, then add buttermilk. Beat well at least 2 minutes after all the ingredients have been added. Bake in 3 greased 9-inch round cake pans at 350 degrees for 25 or 30 minutes. Frost with Icing.
Icing: Mix all the ingredients except nuts & coconut in saucepan & cook 12 minutes, stirring constantly. Add pecan pieces & coconut & beat until mixture is of spreading consistency. Top with pecan halves if desired.