German Chocolate Cake Icing?

Well, your problem is that a German's chocolate cake isn't German. The name derives from the chocolate maker who created the recipe. His name was German and his chocolate was German's sweet chocolate. The recipe was created to use his chocolate and was on the package forever. Baker's bought German's some years back. That's just a plain old American cake. You'd be closer to a German recipe if you just took a hot dog.