This is a simple cake to make, even though you make it from scratch – no box included – you’ll taste the difference.
How To Make German Sweet Chocolate Cake
Prep:
30 mins
Cook:
40 mins
Total:
1 hr 10 mins
Ingredients
- 1 pkg Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate, (4 oz)
- ½ cup water, boiling
- 1 cup butter , or other shortening
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 egg yolks, unbeaten
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 ½ cups Swans Down Cake Flour, sifted
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten
Instructions
- Melt chocolate in boiling water.
- Cool.
- Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add egg yolks one at a time and beat well after each.
- Add melted chocolate and vanilla; mix well.
- Sift together salt, soda, and flour.
- Add alternately with buttermilk to chocolate mixture, beating well. Beat until smooth.
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Fold in beaten egg whites. Pour into 3 8-inch or 9-inch cake layer pans, lining the bottoms with paper.
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Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F) for 30-40 minutes; cool.
- Frost tops only.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 17g
- :
- Calcium: 20mg
- Calories: 199kcal
- Carbohydrates: 27g
- Cholesterol: 34mg
- Fat: 9g
- Fiber: 1g
- Iron: 1mg
- Potassium: 42mg
- Protein: 3g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Sodium: 110mg
- Vitamin A: 398IU
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