My husbands birthday is coming up and he loves German Chocolate Cake, I usually make the recipe from the German Chocolate Baking Chocolate bar, but decided this year to be adventurous. The below recipe is pretty much the same with a few changes. The cake turned out the best that I’ve made in over 30 years, so I will be making this recipe again.I don’t have any idea how many calories/fat is in this, and don’t want to know. Really in the mood to turn the oven on this morning, forgot we turned off the furnace several days ago during a warmer period, and woke up to 27 degree weather and couldn’t figure out why we were all cold. *grin* Original recipe makes 1 - 3 layer 9 inch cake Cake 1/2 cup water 4 (1 oz.) squares German Sweet chocolate 1 cup butter, softened to room temp 2 cups brown sugar 4 egg yolks 1 t vanilla extract 1 cup buttermilk 2 1/2 cups of cake flour or regular flour with 1 T cornstarch added for ea. cup 1/3 t baking soda 7 egg whites (use the whites from the frosting
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