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• Cuisine

  North American >> US >> US

• Dietary Style

• Preparation Time

  Cooking Time - 40 minutes, Preparation Time - 30 minutes

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| 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 4 - 9 inch round pans. Melt the chopped German chocolate in 1/2 cup hot water, and set aside. | 2. In a large bowl, cream together the 2 cups sugar and shortening. Beat in 4 egg yolks until smooth. Next, stir in the buttermilk and vanilla. Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda; mix into creamed mixture. Then, stir in the melted chocolate. In another bowl, whip egg whites to stiff peaks, fold into the batter. Divide the batter evenly between the four pans, and spread evenly. | 3. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool cake in pans on wire racks. When cool, fill and ice with the coconut pecan icing. | 4. To make the icing: In a medium bowl, whip 1 egg yolk, heavy cream and 1 1/4 cup sugar until smooth. Cook in the top of a double boiler, until the mixture thickens. Remove from heat and stir in the coconut, pecans and butter. Cool before icing the cake. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
	Cake			-	-	-	-
german chocolate	4	squares		-	-	-	-
water	1/2	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
white sugar	2	cups		1548.0	399.92	0.0	0.0
shortening	1	cup		1812.2	0.0	0.0	205.0
egg yolk	4			218.96	2.4412	10.7848	18.0472
buttermilk	1	cup		-	-	-	-
vanilla extract	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
purpose flour	2 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
salt	1	pinch		-	-	-	-
baking soda	1	teaspoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
egg white	4			68.64	0.9636	14.388	0.2244
coconut pecan frosting				-	-	-	-
egg yolk	1			218.96	2.4412	10.7848	18.0472
white sugar	1 1/4	cups		1548.0	399.92	0.0	0.0
coconut	1	cup	flaked	283.2	12.184000000000001	2.6639999999999997	26.791999999999998
pecan	3/4	cup	chopped	214.76	40.248000000000005	4.42	4.524
heavy whipping cream	2	cups		816.0	6.5760000000000005	6.816	86.59200000000001
butter	1/4	cup		342.0	15.714	10.686	28.8

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