Project Pastry Queen – Almond Bliss German Chocolate Cake
August 28, 2011 in cake, Project Pastry Queen
This week’s Project Pastry Queen recipe is the Almond Bliss German Chocolate Cake, chosen by Danmy. This was another recipe I had overlooked in the book because there is no picture. I would’ve made it months ago if I’d known it was there!
Despite really loving German chocolate cake, I only make it once a year, on my mom’s birthday. I do the same recipe every year because it’s seriously delicious but I’m always willing to give a new recipe a try. I’m just sad that I couldn’t take a piece to my mom!
The cake really is pretty standard as far as German chocolate cake goes but the icing is a different story. It’s made with cream of coconut (found with the Margarita mixes and such in the grocery store) instead of evaporated milk and almonds instead of the pecans. I definitely prefer the traditional pecans but the cream of coconut was a nice addition. I also found the icing a little… drippy so you might want to cook it a little longer than the recipe specifies.
Other changes I made:
- Did 2 layers instead of 3. Because I only have 2 pans. Three layers would’ve been much prettier. I had to bake it a little longer since the cakes were thicker – maybe 6 or 7 minutes.
- Halved the sugar in both the cake and the icing. They were perfectly sweet without the extra sugar.
Danmy will have the recipe over at her blog. And make sure you visit all the other Project Pastry Queen blogs to see everyone else’s cake!
Yum my favorite kind of cake! I make it for my dad its been one of his favorites as long as I can remember. Though I’ve always done mine w/ pecans it would be nice to change them out for the almonds!
Are you sure the recipe is on Danmy’s blog, because a search for it revealed “no results”. I’d like to try the cake, so can you send me another link with the recipe?
Here you go: http://iheartyummy.blogspot.com/2011/08/almond-bliss-german-chocolate-cupcakes.html
Thanks for commenting! :)
Hi,
I am Angela from Australia and I subscribe to your wonderful blog. I love it. I always reduce the sugar component in recipes and was wondering about your regular German chocolate cake recipe – do you reduce the 2 cups sugar and if so, how much?
Thanks so much.
Regards from Australia,
Angela
I haven’t tried reducing the sugar in the other recipe – I’m always scared to mess with a recipe when I’m making someone’s birthday cake! lol I’m sure it would be fine with 3/4 or even 1/2 the amount of sugar. That German chocolate bar that it calls for is pretty sweet so yeah, I think you’d be fine reducing the sugar by quite a bit.
Thanks for commenting! :)
This is actually my mom’s favorite birthday cake to have. I may have to try making one for her with almonds next year!
Seriously- a recipe without a picture is dead to me. Now *this* I would make! Why in the world would someone not include a picture of something so lovely?!
I was caught off guard by the 3 pan thing as well–luckily I caught it just before I headed to the store!
http://agiltnutmeg.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/almond-bliss-german-chocolate-cake/
Very pretty. Can’t remember the last time I had some German cake..
cream of coconut icing? that sounds heavily! I haven’t made german choc cake in years!
It looks perfectly sweet! I just couldn’t get to the cake last week but I can’t wait to try it after hearing all the raves about the chocolate cake portion.