Throwdown's German Chocolate Cake with Coconut-Pecan-Cajeta Frosting, Chocolate Ganache and Coconut Whipped Cream

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Delicious, but too difficult. Use 3 8 inch pans or it'll overflow. No need to get muscavado sugar (at Williams Sonoma when light brown sugar will do. The coconut-pecan frosting was impossible. Tried to make it twice and found it never cooked to the right consistency. NOT worth the effort and special ingredients. Bought ready made coconut-pecan frosting the next time I made the cake. The ganache went w/o a hitch. Delicious cake, but difficult for the sake of being difficult..

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Awful cake to make, too time consuming and too expensive. Very bitter flavor in frosting and ganache. Not worth the price of ingredients and the time it took to make it. I had to throw out the frosting and took an entire 5 hours to make.

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Maybe a little pretentious, but a wonderful cake! I recommend to make the caramel sauce and the prep a day in advance. Even the whipped cream leftover was looking great the next day. It really is time consuming, it probably took me close to 6 hours. I found the ganache too strong, so next time I will try 6 oz bittersweet and 2 oz of semisweet chocolate combination. Since I only had 8 in pans, I left out some mixture and bake it in mini cheesecake molds for 20 minutes. Next time I make this, if the party is a small one, I will consider doing half and using small molds, divided them in halves, and either do 2, 3 or 4 layers depending on the size and presentation I want. This way I won't have leftovers of a very tasty and decadent cake! If you love chocolate and enjoy baking, this is a very good one!

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Great recipe!!! My cake was moist and rich! I hit a snag with the frosting and ended up making a different kind. I'm sure I did something wrong since this is only my first "made from scratch" cake ever! The frosting curdled.... I may have put the milk mix into the caramel while it was too hot. Other than that, everything else was picture perfect!

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Superb and fun to make. It cost about $60 to make using high quality organic ingredients. The cake came out perfect and was absolutely delicious - it could stand alone or with other toppings. The flavor of the muscavado sugar was easily detectible and worth the expense. The goat milk also made a notable difference in the cajeta. I accidently! made a double batch of the ganache so I whipped half of it over an ice bath and made a cream frosting for the sides and piping along the top and bottom edges, which allowed me to pour a nice thick layer of the ganace over the top. Its very deep chocolate so don't blow off the whipped cream and toasted coconut, it balanced out the intenseness of the chocolate creating a sensational package! I used unsweetened quality coconut, which was just fine. Everyone is still obsessing over the cake.

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I made this cake for a very special friends' birthday party and it was a huge success! It was beautiful, elegant, and simply delicious! Yes, it was time consuming to make, and perhaps pricey, but it was positively worth it. I will keep this recipe as one of my favorites and make it whenever I want to present a wonderful cake to those I love! The flavors were exquisite - please try this cake! Thank you to Bobby Flay.

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I'm thinking about making this for my father's 60th birthday, but I was wondering if I can double the recipe? I would love any advice!

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Worth the work to make it. If I had to pick one thing to eat before I died this would be it!!!

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This cake was a HUGE hit for New Year's Eve. I had a bit of a problem with the filling... I've never made carmel, so it took me a bit longer to get the hang of it. I will be bringing this cake to a July 4th BBQ. (I am not sure if they were joking when my friends told me not to come without it... Can't wait to make it again!

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I LOVE this cake. I often dream about it...I made it according to directions, and used store bought coconut pecan frosting in place of the cajeta frosting because I was pinched for time. My previous chocolate cake recipe was Beatty's chocolate cake from Ina, but I must admit that this one is pretty wonderful! The ganache is too die for...and ol' betty crocker's icing as the filling worked quite brilliantly! Make this cake. You'll want to eat the entire thing, and your guests will NOT forget it.