For as long as I can remember, my family has loved German Chocolate Sheet Cake as a dessert. Every birthday, my dad asks for it; and every family member has a carefully stashed recipe box with grandma’s renowned recipe. I never questioned the presumption that German Chocolate Cake was, well, German because my dad’s side of the family did indeed come from Germany. You may thus understand my astonishment when I discovered that was not the case!

Two cups all-purpose flour
Two white cupboards
¹ ½ cup cocoa powder
1 cup water; ½ cup butter (one stick)
½ cup thinning
German baking chocolate weighing four ounces

½ cup buttermilk.
One tsp baking soda
½ tsp Salt
Two eggs:
One teaspoon vanilla is used here.

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