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Default German Chocolate Cake - Point of order! (accompanied by the sound of a gavel thwack)

On Sun 20 Jan 2008 08:25:00p, Little Malice told us...

> One time on Usenet, Melba's Jammin' > said:
>> In article >, hahabogus
>> > wrote:
>> > "jmcquown" > wrote in
>> > :
>> > > Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>> > >> In article >, "jmcquown"
>> > >> > wrote:

>
>> > >>> 4 oz. German sweet chocolate squares

>
>> > >> Rob loves a German's Sweet Chocolate cake with the coconut-pecan
>> > >> icing. German's, not German < the chocolate named for Samuel

German.
>> > >> I've wondered if just subbing 2/3 cup milk chocolate chips would
>> > >> render a tasty cake.

>
>> > the recipe would work...but chocolate chips are usually semi sweet and
>> > therefore a different animule.

>
>> Are you tellling me you've never seen milk chocolate chips? Huh!
>> Then the name would have to be changed to Nestle's Sweet Chocolate cake.
>> I'm tempted. . . . I've got all the stuff inhouse.

>
> I'm interested in how this turns out...
>


I have to honest, I'm not interested. I like the original version of the
cake, and subbing another chocolate just wouldn't do it for me. Now, an
altogether different chocolate cake, filling, frosting, etc., would be a
different issue.

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Wayne Boatwright

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