Best 7 Icing In The Cake German Chocolate Pound Cake Recipes

GERMAN CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE (ICING IN THE CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 12 cup tube pan or Bundt pan. Mix all ingredients (including the icing), in mixer at medium speed 2 minutes. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 55-60 minutes.
• Remove from oven to wire rack and allow cooling for 10 minutes. Invert onto serving plate and dust with powdered sugar or sift small amount cocoa over top of cake.

GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE ICING

Steps:

• Bring brown sugar, milk, and butter to a boil in a large saucepan, stirring occasionally. Boil until icing thickens and reaches 240 degrees F to 245 degrees F (115 degrees C to 118 degrees C) on a candy thermometer, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in coconut and pecans. If icing is too thick, thin with milk to desired consistency.

GERMAN CHOCOLATE DUMP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a 13x9-in. baking pan. , Sprinkle coconut and 1 cup pecans into baking pan. Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Pour batter into prepared pan., In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until smooth; beat in confectioners' sugar. Stir in chocolate chips and remaining pecans. Spoon over batter. Cut through batter with a knife to swirl. Bake 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.

GERMAN CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottoms only of 2 (9-inch) round cake pans with shortening. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 9-inch round pans, using water, oil and eggs. Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely.
• In 3-quart heavy saucepan, mix sugar, butter, milk and egg yolks. Heat to simmering over medium heat, stirring frequently. Cook 9 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thickened. Remove from heat. Stir in coconut, pecans and vanilla. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• Cut each cake layer horizontally into 2 layers. On serving plate, place 1 layer, cut side up. Spread with about 1 1/3 cups filling. Repeat with second and third layers and 2 2/3 cups filling.
• With serrated knife, cut remaining cake layer into 1 1/2-inch-wide strips. Cut strips into irregular pieces. Place cake pieces randomly over filling to cover top of cake, pressing gently into cake and fitting snugly together. Refrigerate cake several hours before serving, if desired.
• In small microwavable bowl, microwave frosting 10 seconds on High until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over top of cake. Store covered in refrigerator.

GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE FROSTING

Steps:

• In a large saucepan combine evaporated milk, brown sugar, egg yolks, butter and vanilla. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thick. Remove from heat and stir in pecans and coconut. Let cool to room temperature before spreading on cake.

GERMAN CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan.
• Cream shortening at medium speed of mixer.
• Gradually add sugar until well mixed.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg.
• Blend in vanilla extract.
• Combine flour, baking soda and salt.
• Add alternately with buttermilk to the creamed mixture.
• Continue mixing well.
• Mix in the melted chocolate last.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for about 90 minutes or until cake tests done.
• Cool cake in pan on rack for about ten minutes, then turn out and let cake cool completely.
• You may sprinkle with confectioners sugar or top with chocolate glaze.
• For glaze, microwave chocolate and butter together, in a medium sized bowl, until melted.
• Mix in confectioners sugar and just enough water to make a smooth glaze.
• Pour glaze over cake and let trickle down the sides.

CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE WITH FUDGE ICING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 12-cup tube pan; set aside.
• In large bowl, beat butter, shortening, and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until very creamy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• In another bowl, sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.
• Add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the center of cake comes out clean.
• Note: You may have to bake your cake longer than the stated time, depending on your oven.
• Let cool in pan for 15 minutes.
• Invert onto a cooling rack and let cool completely.
• Place cake on a cake plate, ready to frost, before making fudge icing.
• Frost with fudge icing as soon as it reaches the proper spreading consistency.
• For the icing, in saucepan, combine sugar, milk, butter, cocoa and salt.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat.
• Let boil for 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add vanilla.
• Beat at high speed with an electric mixer for 6-8 minutes, or until frosting becomes creamy and reaches a spreadable consistency.
• If making icing on a rainy day, it may take longer to reach a spreadable consistency.
• If you overbeat icing, or it begins to harden, add a little hot water, 1 teaspoon at a time, until icing is spreadable again.