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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Deutschland >> German

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350*F. | 2. Melt the chocolate chips and 1/4 cup of the butter in heavy bottom pan. Let cool. | 3. Cream together remaining butter and sugar in medium bowl. Beat in egg yolks. Stir in vanilla and cocoa powder and chocolate mixture. Sift together dry ingredients. Alternately add dry ingredients and buttermilk to chocolate mixture. | 4. Beat egg whites until stiff in large bowl. Gently fold in chocolate mixture. Pour cake batter evenly into the three prepared round cake pans. Bake at 350*F. for 30 minutes or until cake springs back. Let cool on racks. | 5. Frosting: | 6. Combine evaporated milk, sugar, egg yolks and butter in a saucepan. Add vanilla extract. Cook over medium heat, stirring continuously until thickened (thick enough to coat back of spoon). Remove from heat. Stir in coconut and pecans. Cool until thick enough to spread over cake. | 7. Place 1 cake layer on plate. Spread frosting evenly over top. Repeat with remaining layers. Spread remaining frosting evenly over sides of cake. Serve. Enjoy! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
chocolate chip	1	cup	semi-sweet	-	-	-	-
butter	1 1/4	cups		1710.0	78.57	53.43	144.0
sugar	2	cups	granulated	639.6	120.016	20.02	9.984
egg	4		separated	286.0	1.44	25.12	19.02
vanilla extract	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
cocoa powder	3 -4	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
purpose flour	2	cups		-	-	-	-
baking soda	1	teaspoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
buttermilk	1	cup		-	-	-	-
milk	1 1/2	cups	evaporated	828.0	19.944000000000003	8.244	85.824
sugar	1 1/2	cups	granulated	639.6	120.016	20.02	9.984
egg yolk	4		beaten	218.96	2.4412	10.7848	18.0472
butter	3/4	cup		1710.0	78.57	53.43	144.0
vanilla extract	1 1/2	1/2		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
coconut	2	cups	sweetened flaked	566.4	24.368000000000002	5.327999999999999	53.583999999999996
pecan	2	cups	chopped	572.6933	107.32799999999999	11.7867	12.064

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.