German Chocolate Cake

1  Dunkin Hines German Chocolate Cake mix

1 cup buttermilk instead of water in pkg

3 eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

Sift and put all ingredients in a bowl. Make a well in the cake mix and add slightly beaten eggs, oil and buttermilk.  Mix well.  Spray 2 8inch cake pans generously and evenly put batter in both pans. Tap out bubbles.  Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

Frosting

1 stick unsalted butter, melted (1/2 cup)

2 eggs

10 oz evaporated milk (11/3 cups)

1 1/3 cup sugar

2/3 cup coconut flake

1 cups pecans, chopped

1 tsp vanilla

In a medium sized pot add butter, milk and sugar.  Mix on low over the stove.  Take off the heat if needed.  Add in 2 eggs beaten and stir (10-12 minutes) on medium to a simmer as it thickens. Add vanilla, pecans and coconuts.  Mix and stir.  Let it cool for 1 hour before frosting cake.

Chocolate Ganache

1 1/2 heavy cream

1 1/2 semisweet chocolate chips

In a bowl in the microwave by 30 seconds 3 or 4 times until smooth. Then blend the chocolate ganache in a stand mixer to cream up and make it fluffier.  Will take about 5 minutes. When cold it will whip up faster. 

Put cake together:

1.  Bottom layer of cake

2.  Coconut frosting to the edge and use alot

3.  whipped chocolate on top

4. next layer of cake

5.  cocout frosting ( put in the middle adn go out ad down the sides)

6.  Whipped chocolate in a piping bag and make swirl circles on top using the star tips and around the bottom of the cake.