German Chocolate Cake Bars #It'sAmerican

Earlier this year, as I mentioned in my previous posts, I went to good ol' U S of A and I have cooked and baked QUITE a bit. Mostly, I ate a HELL lot more. Hahaha. I am so funny. Nope. Never mind.

Wheeee fireworksssss

For 4th of July, my sister's fiance had this barbeque celebration at his parents' place. I have no idea where it was but there was a lot of corn and cows. You would think after a 2 hour flight and reaching at 11 PM, my sister would have taken pity on me and let me go to sleep when I reached her place. Did she? No. She made me help her marinate the meats for the next day! When you are born the youngest, you are automatically classified as a slave. Trust me. 

Anyway, I wanted to bake something for the bbq and prior to the trip, I did some research on a couple of recipes so that my sister could buy the ingredients before I reached. After a lot of research on recipes and a few Ellen videos, I went with German Chocolate Cake Bars (taken from Six Sisters' Stuff).

Yes yes, "GERMAN chocolate cake? On 4TH OF JULY?! BLASPHEMY!" Well, looks like it is time for me to teach you something. German chocolate cake did NOT originate from Germany. The cake is actually named after Sam German, an AMERICAN chocolate maker who specialised in making dark baking chocolate. So ha! It's totally an American dessert.

This recipe is pretty simple to be honest. Any fool can bake this - I mean I did it! I think the tough thing about baking this in Singapore would be the cost of ingredients and finding them. I mean it is not impossible or anything but being a cheapskate (and you can verify this with anyone in my family), I am not going to pay $7 dollars for a bag of chocolate chips when it is like $2 from Wegmans in 'Murica. But I might spend that $7 because this dessert was effin' amazing.

Ah - the good ol' ingredients picture.

To make this, you would have to first bake the base. It does not have to be thoroughly baked - just for 7 minutes because you are going to bake this again with the filling.

Because I am all about that base..about that base.. (geddit? geddit?)

Then, you pour in the filling after the base has cooled down. The filling was amazing. Condensed milk, for the win *fist pump*. This is probably the first time I added sweetened dessicated coconut into a dessert and good god, it was amazing.

My dear sister looked at the baking dish and saw the pathetic number of chocolate chips so she did this:

Finish the bag of chocolate chips!

When are we going to use dessicated coconut again? Just finish this bag too.

Then, the dish was popped into the oven. After it was done, took it out and cooled it down and poured caramel sauce all over it. 

Please take your time and stare at this

Everyone loved the dessert. Trust me. I know when people are lying when they tell me one of my dishes are good when it actually sucks but I still give it to them because (1) I don't want to eat it, (2) I need a boost in my self-esteem and (3) I want to get rid of them.

Getting into the holiday spirit!

At the end of day, it was a really fun filled day. Being that it is my first time celebrating 4th of July, it was pretty....awesome. We also sat around a campfire and talked about our feelings. No, we didn't. Maybe I did but no one listened. I don't know. Let's not get emotional.

CAMPFIRE! CLICHE MUCH? UH HUH. LOVED IT.

Alright, I am going to stop rambling. 

Toodles!

(P.S: I MADE/GENERATED ALL THESE GIFS!!!)