Hello,

I have been asked to make a German Chocolate cake. I have never done a cake like this before. She wants it done in a 13X9 pan. How would I go about doing this? Do I ice the sides and the top of the cake with the coconut/pecan frosting? She would also like me to write a message on the cake - will it taste funny if I use buttercream frosting to do that? Any suggestions would be very helpful. I guess I am so use to making a cake that uses buttercream frosting all over the cake. If I where to do a round cake would I still ice the sides? Would you also use this as the filling? Sorry if I am asking dumb questions, but like I said before I have not had to do a cake like this before.

Thanks,
Kel

Hi Kel!

German Chocolate is my husband's favorite so I make that all the time. I use the recipe for the cake and frosting from scratch that is provided on the inside of the box of Baker's German Chocolate (found in the baking aisle). I usually do 3 rounds and yes, I use the coconut pecan frosting in between the layers and all over the cake. I have never done it as a sheet cake, but I don't see why you couldn't. I have used chocolate buttercream icing to write and pipe borders. The chocolate is good, well because it's chocolate, ha ha. But I'm sure that regular vanilla buttercream would be just fine.
I actually have an order for an Easter cake and they want German Chocolate. I think I will leave the sides coconut pecan and then do a basketweave in chocolate BC on top and add some spring flowers.
Hope this helps!

I will also attach a German chocolate cake I did, it has a color flow design on top.

I made a German Chocolate cake last week. It's picture is in my photos. I used the Cake Mix Doctor recipe which called for putting the icing in the mix - I can't remember what else was added - I'll try and look for the recipe - but it was very moist. I then used milk chocolate icing for the center and outside and then put the pirouette cookies around it and then put a big black bow around it to dress it up. Very easy to do and got rave reviews from my Sunday School class - they are always my testers for anything I make. You could look on www.cakemixdoctor.com and see if you can find the recipe.