Chocolate Cake & German Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

2 Cups Sugar

2 Cups all purpose flour

2 Sticks Butter

1/4 Cup baking Cocoa 

1 Cup Water

1/2 Cup buttermilk or 1/2 Cup plain Greek yogurt (I used Greek yogurt) 

2 Eggs slightly beaten 

1 tsp. Vanilla

1 tsp. baking soda

Directions:

-Preheat oven 400℉

-Blend sugar and flour in large bowl 

-Combine 2 sticks butter, baking cocoa, and water in a large saucepan, bring quickly to a boil 

-pour the saucepan mixture over the flour mixture and mix well. 

-add Buttermilk or Greek yogurt ( I used 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt), eggs, Vanilla, baking soda and mix well. 

-Pour into 10⨉15 greased pan. Bake for 30 minutes. 

Notes for the Chocolate Cake 

I didn't use a 10⨉15 pan I used a 9⨉13 greased glass pan and 30 minutes was a little too long, I did get the edges and the bottom a little too well done so much sure to keep an eye on it especially if you are using a different pan.

German Chocolate Frosting

Ingredients: 

1 Cup evaporated milk 

1 cup Sugar

3 Eggs Yolks slightly mixed with whisk 

1/2 cup Butter or 1 Stick (real Butter) 

1 teaspoon Vanilla 

1 1/2 cups Coconut 

1 Cup chopped pecans

Directions: 

- in a metal mixing bowl add the coconut and pecans set aside

-Put Butter in a sauce pan and melt.

-add milk, sugar, vanilla, and whisked eggs yolks

-Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture starts to bubble cook about 9 minutes stirring constantly

-Pour the hot mixture into metal bowl with coconut and pecans, let cool before icing cake. 

Notes for German Chocolate Frosting: 

If you do not have evaporated milk like I didn't you can boil regular milk, take 2 1/4 cups regular milk whole or 2% it doesn't matter and boil it until it becomes 1 cup and use that. Add the egg into the mix with the butter first because I found that me just adding it all together at once the egg was extremely hard for me to mix in.