German chocolate cake

noun

A layered chocolate cake filled and topped with coconut-pecan frosting.

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Meanings

nounGerman chocolate cake (countable and uncountable, plural German chocolate cakes)

plural German chocolate cakes

  1. UScountableuncountableA layered chocolate cake filled and topped with coconut-pecan frosting.

Origin

From the earlier form German's Chocolate cake (1957), so named because it used a variety of chocolate developed by Samuel German, an English-American chocolate maker employed by James Baker's chocolate company (which also developed baker's chocolate).

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