Understandably, there are quite a few birthdays at the North Pole. All the elves, reindeer, and miscellaneous human help (Santa and myself included), there is not a month that goes by without a birthday. This month there was a request from an elf named Austin, who wanted a German Chocolate Cake. Austin is an excellent worker in the electronics department. Every year Santa has him inspect the wiring in his sled. He hasn’t let him down, literally, yet!
Obviously I wanted to make a magnificent cake for such a hard working elf. I was on a mission to make the ultimate German Chocolate Cake recipe. Thankfully I found it! It was at the lovely food writer, David Lebovitz’s blog. After just a little searching, I stumbled upon dozens of raving reviews for this cake. It is the ultimate German Chocolate experience. Unfortunately greatness like this requires a vast amount of work, but thankfully none of the steps are too difficult.
Instead of posting the recipe for this labor of love, I am linking to the recipe, A German Chocolate Work of Art. It is quite long and I don’t want to be at fault for your pièce de résistance not coming out perfectly. I did make a few slight changes to his original recipe, but I am sure if you followed it to a tee it would be more than delightful:
I switched the 2 tablespoons of rum to 1 tablespoon of vanilla for the syrup. I would also recommend cutting it in half seeing at it makes a hefty amount of syrup and you probably don’t have reindeer around to lick it up. The second change I made was using 6 ounces of semisweet chocolate and 2 ounces of unsweetened chocolate for the frosting.
Enjoy!
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