German's Sweet Chocolate Cake
A Carolina mountain recipe for German's Sweet Chocolate Cake.
Ingredients
- 1 package German's sweet chocolate -- (4-ounce)
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs -- separated
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 1/2 cups cake flour -- or 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour *see note
- 1 cup buttermilk
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- 2
Grease and flour 3 (9-inch) layer pans.
- 3
Melt chocolate in boiling water. Cool.
- 4
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
- 5
Add egg yolks, 1 at a time; beat after adding each one.
- 6
Add chocolate and vanilla; mix well.
- 7
Sift salt, soda and flour together.
- 8
In clean bowl with clean beaters, beat egg whites to stiff peaks.
- 9
Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk to chocolate mixture, beating well.
- 10
Beat until smooth. Fold in egg whites.
- 11
Pour into prepared pans.
- 12
Bake 30 to 40 minutes, until cake springs back when lightly touched and begins to pull away from sides of pans.
- 13
Cool slightly; remove layers from pans and let cool on racks.
- 14
Fill and frost top and sides of layers with Coconut-Pecan Frosting.