Ingredients For German Chocolate Cake

Series Summary

If Benjamin Franklin could be enticed to change his own words from beyond, he might say that dessert is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Though everybody has their own ideas about what constitutes dessert, sweet foods are an important, nay, vital part of the human experience. Their minor percentage of the nutritional pyramid speaks of their potency, of their uncanny ability to brighten your day and make you smile.

In these free dessert cooking classes on video, learn how to make a delicious german chocolate cake recipe. The distinctive coconut frosting is what characterizes this rich chocolate cake. Our expert will show you what ingredients to gather, how to mix them, how to prepare the egg whites, how to grease the pans, how to make the frosting, baking tips—in short, there should be no reason why you can’t make this cake after watching these videos a few times. With step-by-step instructions that you can pause and rewind, it’s even better, and tastier, than most of the cooking shows you’ll see on tv. Enjoy!

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Bethany Cherry with Expert Village and today I am going to teach you how to make this German Chocolate Cake. So the ingredients that we are going to be using for the German Chocolate Cake are a half cup of water, 1 bar of sweet of cooking chocolate, 1 cup of butter or margarine, 2 cups of sugar, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, 2 1/2 cups of cake flour, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1 cup of buttermilk. You don't have to use cake flour if you don't have it or if you don't know what it is. You can use all purpose flour. The difference between the two is just that cake flour is more fine so if you just sift all purpose flour a couple of times, it will work the same. If you don't have a sifter, you can just use a wire whisk and it will do the same thing. "