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名詞

German chocolate

1. (chiefly in combination with other words like "flavor", "cake", "ice cream", etc) Chocolate mixed with coconut and pecan.
   • 2000, Michigan Living:

     "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.

   • 2011 February 15, Debby Maugans, Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers: Recipes for Cookies, Cakes, Pies, Tarts, Muffins, and Scones, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:

     This pound cake is sweet but not cloying, just rich with German chocolate flavor.

   • 2013 August 6, Natalie Slater, Bake and Destroy: Good Food for Bad Vegans, Page Street Publishing, →ISBN, page 42:

     […] 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.

   • 2020 May 29, Linda K. Jackson, Jennifer Evans Gardner, Meringue, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:

     Pecans. Chocolate. Coconut. This combination can only mean one thing—German chocolate cake—or in this case, German chocolate meringue cookies.

   • 2021 October 12, Charity Ferreira, Ice Cream: 25 Recipes for Homemade Ice Creams and Frosty Treats, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 11:

     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].

   • 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:

     […] 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.

参考

• baker's chocolate (named for James Baker, head of the company that employed Samuel German)