German chocolate en · NOUN
Etymology
From German chocolate cake, the most prominent item to have this flavor, from the surname of its inventor, Samuel German.
Meanings
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(in-compounds, qualifier:"cake"; "ice cream"; etc; "cake"; "ice cream"; etc, with other words like "flavor") Chocolate mixed with coconut and pecan.
German Chocolate ICE CREAM PIE This ice cream pie is topped with a fluffy mountain of caramel whipped cream, toasted coconut, and pecans. Häagen-Dazs makes a German chocolate cake ice cream flavor, which is an appropriate and delicious alternative to the chocolate ice cream [in this recipe].
2021 October 12, Charity Ferreira, Ice Cream: 25 Recipes for Homemade Ice Creams and Frosty Treats, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 11:This pound cake is sweet but not cloying, just rich with German chocolate flavor.
2011 February 15, Debby Maugans, Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers: Recipes for Cookies, Cakes, Pies, Tarts, Muffins, and Scones, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:Pecans. Chocolate. Coconut. This combination can only mean one thing—German chocolate cake—or in this case, German chocolate meringue cookies.
2020 May 29, Linda K. Jackson, Jennifer Evans Gardner, Meringue, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:"The coconut, its consistency and the distinct German chocolate flavor blend into one to-die-for taste ." Judges suspected Schwan's shredded coconut came straight off a coconut tree and into the mixing bowl, but Schwan admits a few cooking secrets.
2000, Michigan Living:[…] one of those special request flavors was German chocolate. […] asking if I made German chocolate ice cream. I told her that I didn't but that I would for Priscilla. I made German chocolate cakes from scratch, and my plan was to use that knowledge to make the ice cream mix.
2024 June 20, Chantae Fowler, Whatever Happened to the Ice Cream Lady?: The Ice Cream Recipes and Inspiration Behind Ice Cream Place, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:[…] combining chocolate, coconut and pecans is not actually a German tradition. Rather, German chocolate is named for Sam German, who developed the extra-sweet, light chocolate flavor.
2013 August 6, Natalie Slater, Bake and Destroy: Good Food for Bad Vegans, Page Street Publishing, →ISBN, page 42: