Dessert Recipes - German Sweet Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients                 

• One 4-ounce package Baker's German Sweet Chocolate

• 1/2 cup boiling water

• 2 1/2 cups sifted Swans Down Cake F1our*

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1/2 tsp salt

• 1 cup butter or margarine

• 2 cups sugar

• 4 egg yolks

• 1 tsp vanilla

• 1 cup buttermilk

• 4 egg whites

• Coconut-Pecan Filling and Frosting

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Method:

1. Melt chocolate in boiling water; cool. 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.

2. Add flour mixture, alternately with the buttermilk, beating after each addition until smooth.

3. 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 paper.

4. Bake at 360°F for 30 to 36 minutes, until cake springs back when lightly pressed in center.

5. Cool cake in pans 16 minutes; then remove and cool on rack Spread Coconut-Pecan Filling and Frosting between layers and over top of cake.

Note: This delicate cake will have a flat slightly sugary top crust which tends to crack.