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German Chocolate-Red Velvet Cake

Name: German Chocolate-Red Velvet Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 cup butter,, softened; 2 cups sugar; 4 large eggs,, room temperature; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 cups cake flour; 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 1/4 cups buttermilk; 1 (1-ounce) bottle liquid red food coloring; 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream; 1 1/2 cups sugar; 5 egg yolks; 6 tablespoons butter; 2 cups sweetened angel hair coconut; 1 1/2 cups chopped toasted pecans

Two delicious desserts get combined into one cake with this red velvet cake topped with a German chocolate frosting.

Prep20 min
Cook40 min
Total1 hr
Serves16

This cake is a combination of two of my favorite southern cakes- Red Velvet Cake and German Chocolate Cake. The cake batter is all Red Velvet with its bright red color and slight cocoa powder taste. The thick and rich frosting is straight up German Chocolate with coconut and pecans.

German Chocolate-Red Velvet Cake

. Habersham is a new planned community with the cutest little town center. We been to visit it several times because I think I might really like to move to Habersham when my daughter goes to college in 3 years.

My son had a truly wonderful meal that I can’t wait to recreate. Instead of Chicken and Waffles, it was Chicken and a cast iron skillet cooked pancake that must have been 1 inch thick, topped with pecan butter. It was amazing. And since I always prefer pancakes to waffles, it was totally my kind of meal. Lately I’ve found restaurants to be my favorite source of recipe inspiration.

In what has been a very food-focused weekend, I also added a book to my cookbook collection. We were in the cutest store in downtown Beaufort and they had a table topped with wonderful cookbooks. I couldn’t resist First Prize Pies: Shoo-Fly, Candy Apple, and Other Deliciously Inventive Pies for Every Week of the Year (and More) by Allison Kave. The chapters are arranged by months, each month having 6 to 7 pies. There’s an Avocado Pie, Salty Dog Chess Pie, Root Beer Float Pie, and S’mores Pie. I can’t decide which pie to make first from the cookbook, but I think it might have to be the Watermelon Cream Pie. I have never, ever thought of making pie with watermelon. Stay tuned for that.

And that’s about all the thinking I can do about food right now. I am wishing I hadn’t eaten so much today.

German-Chocolate-Red Velvet Cake