My mom loooooves German chocolate cake. I remember her making her own German chocolate birthday cake when I was younger. I thought I would put my passion and skills to use and give her what she really wanted and what I could really afford for her birthday - you guessed it. I did cheat by using a boxed cake mix, but I just haven't gotten to the point where I can guarantee results of homemade cake recipes. Plus, I didn't want to go out and get cake flour just for this. The cakes baked up just fine (although it was foolish to whisk the batter instead of beating it). My mom wanted a 4-layer cake instead of just 2 thick layers, so I let her cut it. Goodness knows I'm no good at cutting things straight. She did just as bad of a job as I would have done, which you can see in the picture. She didn't care about how lopsided it was, just about how good it tasted!
I did make the topping from scratch. I got the recipe from myhomecooking.net, aka the first recipe that popped up on Google that seemed legit. It started out pretty runny but I thickened it up and it set up just fine. It was a little too sugary for even me. It wasn't quite sticky enough to glue the layers together properly, or maybe we just didn't let it set for long enough. Either way, the cake fell apart when we cut it and served it. It was met with rave reviews, though, so I'm going to chalk it up to a success and have another go next year.
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I just made a german chocolate cake this evening and did the same thing- box mix and the SAME frosting recipe (thanks google)! I'm glad it'll harden up a bit because I made a mess trying to frost the cake with that uber-runny frosting! At least it'll taste good. Mine looks a lot like yours, but I attempted frosting the sides (hence the mess).
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