{"id":7211,"date":"2014-07-16T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T05:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2014-07-13T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T00:37:56","slug":"non-dairy-german-chocolate-cake-tweaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/non-dairy-german-chocolate-cake-tweaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Dairy German Chocolate Cake Tweaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/B65747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7212\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/B65747.jpg\" alt=\"dairy-free German chocolate cake\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/B65747.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/B65747-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/B65747-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/B65747-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July is birthday month for my daughter and me. We celebrated last weekend\u2013a bit early for both of us, but it was when our family could gather together. I baked the latest dairy-free rendition of the traditional family birthday cake, <a href=\"German's%20Chocolate\" target=\"_blank\">German&#8217;s Chocolate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I last baked one of these in <a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/2013\/06\/german-chocolate-cake-dairy-free-version\/\" target=\"_blank\">September of 2013 for Mom&#8217;s birthday.<\/a> Both then and now, I used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraftrecipes.com\/recipes\/original-bakers-germans-sweet-51120.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">original German Chocolate cake recipe<\/a>, which can be found online. This time, I used soured coconut milk instead of soured rice milk. We all agreed it added body to the cake. These are the dairy-free substitutions used in the cake:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replace the cup of butter with 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthbalancenatural.com\/product\/vegan-buttery-sticks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Balance buttery vegan sticks<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Replace the buttermilk with soured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atasteofthai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Taste of Thai regular (not lite) coconut milk<\/a>. To sour the coconut milk, put 1 tablespoon vinegar in a measuring cup and add coconut milk to the 1 cup line. Let sit 15 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The coconut milk remaining in the can was just enough for the coconut-pecan frosting. It wasn&#8217;t the perfect replacement for evaporated milk, but it&#8217;s the best substitute yet. Once again, here&#8217;s the frosting recipe Mom found years ago in a magazine. It&#8217;s different from the one found inside the Baker&#8217;s German&#8217;s Sweet Chocolate box, and one I&#8217;ve never seen anywhere else. It&#8217;s been adjusted to be dairy-free, too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Easy Coconut-Pecan Filling and Frosting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3\/4 cup canned coconut milk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1\/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar<br \/>\n1\/2 cup granulated sugar\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1\/2 cup Earth Balance vegan sticks<br \/>\n1 teaspoon vanilla\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten<br \/>\n1 1\/3 cups shredded coconut\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 cup chopped pecans<\/p>\n<p>Combine milk, sugars, butter and vanilla in a sauce pan. Bring to a full boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. (Mixture may appear curdled.) Quickly stir a small amount of hot mixture into the egg yolks; then pour that mixture back into sauce pan. Return to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add coconut and pecans. Cool to spreading consistency, stirring occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>*Cookbooks tell you to frost between the layers and on the top of a German chocolate cake, but not on its sides. Mom always frosted the sides (it\u2019s a little tricky) to keep the cake moist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July is birthday month for my daughter and me. We celebrated last weekend\u2013a bit early for both of us, but it was when our family could gather together. I baked the latest dairy-free rendition of the traditional family birthday cake, German&#8217;s Chocolate. I last baked one of these in September of 2013 for Mom&#8217;s birthday. 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