http://www.chocorific.com/chocolate/european-chocolate/german-chocolate/german-chocolate-cakes/ German chocolate cakes can come in many shapes and sizes. German chocolate cakes can also be made to fit any occasion. en-us Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:54:49 EDT Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:54:49 EDT Weblog Editor 2.0 How many varieties of German chocolate cakes do you think there are? Search the Internet and you can find a wide variety of different German chocolate cakes. German Chocolate Cakes for Any Occasion When searching for German chocolate cakes to write about on this page, we found some unique things. There were German chocolate cakes for weddings, German chocolate cakes for birthdays, even upside-down German chocolate cakes! You really have to think outside the box to make some of these work for certain occasions. For weddings, a German chocolate cake isn't a traditional wedding cake. It certainly wouldn't be very pretty or dramatic. However, it would make a unique groom's cake! You could even make it yourself. It would be simple enough. In fact, the simplest way to do it would be to bake the bottom cake in a square cake pan and frost it, then make another one in a smaller square cake pan. Lay the smaller square cake diagonally on top of the larger, frosted square cake, then finish frosting it. You can pipe chocolate frosting in scallops along the edges of the two cakes, and garnish the bottom edge of the larger cake with chocolate-dipped strawberries. Yum! To make a German chocolate upside down cake, grease and flour a 13 x 9 inch pan. Put 1 cup of chopped pecans and a small can of coconut in the bottom of the pan. Next, mix a box of German chocolate cake mix according to package directions and pour over nuts and coconut. Then mix 1/2 cup melted butter, an 8-oz. package of cream cheese and a box of powdered sugar together and drop spoonfuls of the mixture on top of the cake batter (not near the edges though). Bake this at 350 for 45-60 minutes or until done, then cool for at least 30 minutes. Invert it onto a plate. German chocolate birthday cakes aren't nearly as complicated. Simply bake and frost the cake the write "Happy Birthday" in chocolate decorator's frosting on top. You can take the same chocolate frosting and pipe scallops around the edges if you want to, or leave it as is. Chances are it will be awesome either way! Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:54:49 EDT