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German chocolate

German chocolate noun: chocolate mixed with coconut and pecan.

Noun

German chocolate

  1. (in-compounds, "cake", "ice cream", etc) Chocolate mixed with coconut and pecan.
    • "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
    • 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

Examples of German chocolate in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:
  • […] one of those special request flavors was German chocolate. […] asking if I made German chocolate ice cream.2024 June 20, Chantae Fowler, Whatever Happened to the Ice Cream Lady?: The Ice Cream Recipes and Inspiration Behind Ice Cream Place, Page...

Origin of German chocolate

From German chocolate cake, the most prominent item to have this flavor, from the surname of its inventor, Samuel German.

Questions about German chocolate

What does German chocolate mean?
German chocolate means chocolate mixed with coconut and pecan.
How do you use German chocolate in a sentence?
Rather, German chocolate is named for Sam German, who developed the extra-sweet, light chocolate flavor.
What part of speech is German chocolate?
German chocolate is a noun.

Words near German chocolate in the dictionary

  1. German bits
  2. German brass
  3. German camomile
  4. German carp
  5. German chamomile
  6. German chocolate
  7. German chocolate cake
  8. German chocolate cakes
  9. German cockroach
  10. German cockroaches
  11. German Confederation

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