German chocolate cake frosting recipe

This German Chocolate Cake has a rich, moist chocolate cake and homemade buttery, gooey coconut pecan frosting. My grandma would be so proud!

This classic German Chocolate Cake features rich, moist layers of chocolate cake, filled and topped with a decadent coconut-pecan frosting, and finished with smooth chocolate frosting on the sides. It's a delicious dessert perfect for special occasions.

This thick and creamy German chocolate cake frosting is studded with pecans and sweetened shredded coconut.

Full of coconuts and pecans tucked into a buttery caramel base, this Coconut Pecan Frosting is perfect for topping German Chocolate Cake.

An easy German Chocolate sheet cake recipe with a spiffed-up cake mix base and homemade caramel, pecan and coconut icing.

A classic recipe and the standard for German chocolate cake.

Granny's German Chocolate Cake Icing recipe is an old fashioned stove top frosting that pairs perfectly with a chocolate cake.

This is Authentic German's Chocolate Cake, made with German's sweet chocolate. It's a very moist and sweet light chocolate cake, slathered with a to-die-for pecan coconut frosting!

This recipe is lightly adapted from the original “German’s® Sweet Chocolate Cake” recipe from Baker’s Chocolate Company, originating in 1957. Both the cake recipe and coconut-pecan frosting recipes are true to the original, with my addition of chocolate ganache to frost the sides of the cake. If possible, use German’s Sweet Chocolate bar by Baker’s Chocolate Company to make the cake layers. An acceptable substitute is a semisweet chocolate bar with cacao content of 50% to 56% (this…

Create a decadent dessert with our Homemade Traditional German Chocolate Cake, featuring layers of rich chocolate, creamy coconut pecan frosting, and smooth chocolate frosting—a heavenly combination!