German Chocolate Bundt Cake

I love chocolate cake, especially German chocolate. This recipe is very moist and delicious and is great for parties. I just made this cake to celebrate my father's birthday. Everyone enjoyed it, and I hope you will too!

This cake can be made as a three layer cake or as a bundt cake.

Recipe:

Cake:

1 4 oz package of baker's sweetened chocolate

1/2 C boiling water

1 C butter, softened

2 C sugar

4 egg yolks

4 egg whites

1 tsp vanilla

2 1/2 C cake flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 C buttermilk

For a bundt cake, preheat the oven to 325 degrees or 350 degrees for a 3 layer cake.

Cream the sugar and butter together. Add the egg yolks.

Melt the chocolate in the boiling water and mix into the butter/sugar/egg mixture. Add the vanilla.

Add the four, baking soda, salt and buttermilk. Mix.

In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Fold the egg whites into the batter.

Grease a bundt pan or 3, 8 inch cake pans. Lightly sprinkle the insides of the pans with sugar.

Pour the batter into the pans of your choice. From experience, a typical-sized bundt pan will not hold all of the batter and will overflow if overfilled. Only fill the bundt pan about 2/3 full. To prevent waste, I usually using the remaining batter to make a few cupcakes.

Bake:

Bundt Cake: Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes at 325 degrees.

3 Laker Cake: Bake for 30 - 40 minutes at 350 degrees.

Let the cake cool for 15 minutes before removing from the pans. Cool completely before frosting.

Frosting:

2 C evaporated milk

2 C sugar

6 beaten egg yolks

1 C butter

2 tsp vanilla

2 1/2 C coconut

2 C chopped pecans

In a large sauce pan, combine the milk, butter, sugar, egg yolks and vanilla. Cook on medium heat for 12 minutes. Mix in the coconut and pecans. Pour into a bowl and refridgerate for half an hour or until thickened.

Frost the cake and enjoy! A bundt cake can also be sliced horizontally and a layer of frosting can be spread between the two layers. This recipe makes a lot of frosting so there will definitely be enough to do this.