I have found that no matter what brand of cake mix that I use, the German Chocolate cake always falls apart. Every last one of them, every last brand of them. Does this happen to anybody else? I need a good scratch recipe for german chocolate seeing as I will never try it from a box again.

I use DH German Chocolate mix, but a trick I learned from my mother, is to add a box of melted german chocolate to it (The "bar" of Bakers German Chocolate). It really makes it moist and good and helps the texture. I also add buttermilk instead of water to the mix.

I even tried to use the doctoring method....still didnt work. I dont know why. Every last one breaks in half or more parts. Most break when i take them out of the pan. Some when i move them form the cooling rack. Some even after they have been frozen, they just snap in half to the touch. WTF! lol The farthest I have been with this cake is to the crumbcoat, and then the stupid thing fell out of the fridge when I opened it to do another coat of buttercream. Arrghhh! I was so mad. I was fine when it went in there. Had the whole top shelf to itself so it was pretty darn in there. I think it planned on jumping out and onto the floor. How the H--L did this happen? Why would a cake do this to me? Hmm....maybe cause I dont like german chocolate cake, hate the frosting with the coconut and stuff.... Maybe as the dying wish of the first cake (cause I didnt eat the rest of it and let it go stale cause I didnt like the taste), it told all the other cakes to just break and kill itself instead of being wasted by me. lol

You are too funny Yep, it must have been suicide!!