This German Chocolate Bundt Cake recipe is a delicious bundt cake version of the original German chocolate cake cake recipe. It is one of the most delicious recipes with a coconut pecan filling inside the center of the cake instead of the classic coconut pecan frosting on top.
It is chocolatey german chocolate bundt cake that is perfect for special dessert night, birthdays, or holidays. I love to make this cake recipe for my Mom's birthday as it is her favorite cake.
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❤️ Why you'll love it
✔️ This easy, made from scratch cake recipe is delicious and weight watcher friendly at only 7 WW Points per serving!
✔️ It is a very easy cake recipe to put together with just a couple of steps. There is no boxed cake mix required!
✔️ The German chocolate frosting inside the cake is a nice surprise to find!
🥘 Ingredients
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- All-purpose flour
- Granulated sugar
- Brown sugar
- Powdered sugar
- Butter, at room temperature
- Flaked sweetened coconut
- Pecans
- Non stick cooking spray
- Unsweetened cocoa
- Baker's German chocolate
- Vanilla extract
- Large Eggs
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Low-fat buttermilk
- Fat-free milk
- Pure vanilla extract
- Pecans
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°.
To prepare streusel
- Lightly spoon the flour into a dry measuring cup and level with a knife. Combine the flour and brown sugar in a small bowl. Using a pastry blender or 2 knives cut the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles a coarse meal. Stir in coconut and pecans. Set aside.
For the cake
- Coat a 12-cup Bundt cake pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon granulated sugar on the inside of bundt pan. Set aside.
- Combine cocoa powder and baking chocolate in a small bowl. Add the boiling water and stir until chocolate melts. Set aside.
- Using an electric mixer at medium speed, add the granulated sugar and butter to a large bowl and mix for 5 minutes, until well blended.
- Add the vanilla and egg whites, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Lightly spoon the flour into dry measuring cups and level with a knife. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, stirring well with a whisk.
- With the electric mixer at low speed, add flour mixture to the sugar mixture alternately with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir the melted chocolate mixture.
- Spoon half of batter into the prepared pan and top with streusel.
- Spoon the remaining batter over streusel and smooth the top with the back of a spoon, being sure to cover the streusel mixture.
- Bake at 325° for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and cool completely.
To prepare glaze (optional)
- Combine powdered sugar and melted butter in a small bowl. Add the milk and stir with a whisk until smooth.
- Drizzle glaze over top of cake.
🥄 Equipment
Mixing bowls
12-cup bundt pan
Electric hand mixer
Rubber spatula
🥫Storage
Store this cake in an airtight container on the kitchen counter up to 3 days, in the fridge up to 1 week, or in the freezer up to 3 months.
📖 Variations
- Substitute 3 tablespoons cocoa powder and 1 tablespoon of melted butter for the 1-ounce sweet baking chocolate.
- Add chocolate chips to the streusel mixture
- Substitute chopped walnuts for the pecans
- Make a chocolate drizzle to top the cake instead of vanilla.
💭 Tips
- Fill the bundt cake pan with ½ of the cake batter. Take a tablespoon and in the center of the batter, make a well all around the cake pan. This makes a place for the coconut pecan filling to fit in nicely without spreading to the edges of the cake.
🙋 FAQ's
A German Chocolate Cake is a chocolate-flavored layer cake that is filled with a coconut pecan frosting. The coconut pecan frosting is made from evaporated milk, egg yolks, coconut, and pecans.
A tunnel cake is a cake made in a bundt cake pan with a filling that is baked in the center of the cake.
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🍽 Serve with...
Serve this cake with a scoop of your favorite ice cream, a cup of hot coffee, or tea.
🏫 The last word
The original tunnel cake was a was a popular chocolate cake cake mix with a chocolate cake filling that was made in a bundt pan (also called an inside out cake). We used to call it the tunnel of love cake!
Over the years, their popularity faded some, but theses filled bundt cakes are still absolutely delicious and this vintage recipes deserves a comeback!
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📖 Recipe
German Chocolate Bundt Cake
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Ingredients
Streusel
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon chilled butter cut into small pieces
- ⅓ cup flaked sweetened coconut
- ⅓ cup chopped pecans
Cake
- Cooking spray
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 ounce sweet baking chocolate
- ½ cup boiling water
- 1½ cups granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup butter softened
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large egg whites
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup low-fat buttermilk
Glaze (optional)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 4 teaspoon fat-free milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°.
To prepare streusel
- Lightly spoon the flour into a dry measuring cup and level with a knife. Combine the flour and brown sugar in a small bowl. Using a pastry blender or 2 knives cut the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles a coarse meal. Stir in coconut and pecans. Set aside.
For the cake
- Coat a 12-cup Bundt cake pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon granulated sugar on the inside of bundt pan. Set aside.
- Combine cocoa powder and baking chocolate in a small bowl. Add the boiling water and stir until chocolate melts. Set aside.
- Using an electric mixer at medium speed, add the granulated sugar and butter to a large bowl and mix for 5 minutes, until well blended.
- Add the vanilla and egg whites, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Lightly spoon the flour into dry measuring cups and level with a knife. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, stirring well with a whisk.
- With the electric mixer at low speed, add flour mixture to the sugar mixture alternately with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir the melted chocolate mixture.
- Spoon half of batter into the prepared pan and top with streusel.Spoon the remaining batter over streusel and smooth the top with the back of a spoon, being sure to cover the streusel mixture.
- Bake at 325° for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and cool completely.
To prepare glaze (optional)
- Combine powdered sugar and melted butter in a small bowl. Add the milk and stir with a whisk until smooth.Drizzle glaze over top of cake.
ABowlOfMush
I love German cake! Love the look of this one! You've got me in the mood to make it now!
gail
Whoa! Over the top. I NEED to eat this!!! I don't care that it is 6:30am....
Jo
This looks really, really good and I can see almost every single moist crumb bit. I love the drizzle of the icing you had generously showered on it too.
Lynda
Love the looks of this cake; I love chocolate and I love bundt cakes!
Jessie
the fact that this only has 7 ww points makes it even harder because I think I would have two slices in one sitting! that cake looks divine!
Cinnamon Girl aka Reeni♥
This looks scrumptious! So moist and chocolaty!
Patsyk
What a gorgeous cake! CL does make it easy to enjoy a dessert even when you are trying to be good. Hope Grumpy enjoyed it, too!
Jamie
If I only had a working oven right now to bake this. Looks really good! I'll have to save it to try later on.
Helene
Another great Cooking Light recipe, that looks really yummy.
cindy
I'm hungry, love German Chocolate and this looks delish!
Ingrid
I've never had German Chocolate cake but that's not surprising since I don't like chocolate. I do have to say that your bundt does look pretty good.
Happy Labor Day!
~ingrid
the ungourmet
I need to feel better too. Can you make me cake?! ;0)
Fallon
WOW that looks so good! No one would ever know it was a cooking light recipe!
Christy
This looks like heaven!! I love German Chocolate Cake, so this is a must try! I agree with Barbara...the fact that it's Cooking Light makes it even better! 🙂
Christy
This looks like heaven!! I love German Chocolate Cake, so this is a must try! I agree with Barbara...the fact that it's Cooking Light makes it even better! 🙂
noble pig
Beautiful, just yummy...I need to add some of my family recipes to this event!!
Barbara Bakes
Great combination - I love German chocolate and I love bundt cakes! Even better that it's Cooking Light!
Happy cook
Wow that budn't cake looks so mist and so delish.
I just bought a new modle of budn't pan. Bookmarking this recipe.
Will have to check out the link for seeing the ingridients.
Linda
HoneyB, this cake looks delish!!
Linda
Hi Shelby, This looks so wonderful.
It is hard to be good when I see all these yummy pictures!!
Hope you are having a good weekend!
I am going to make a batch of the vegan cookies today.