German Chocolate Icing

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup canned evaporated milk
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 egg yolks, slightly mixed with a whisk
• 1/2 cup butter (real butter)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups coconut
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Recipe

• 1 put butter in a sauce pan and let it melt.
• 2 add milk, sugar, vanilla and whisk in egg yolks.
• 3 cook and stir over medium heat until mixture starts to bubble and then cook for about nine (9) minutes stirring constantly.
• 4 pour over coconut and pecans and mix.
• 5 i usually put the nuts and coconut in a metal bowl and then poor the hot mixture over them to help with cooling.
• 6 if you are in a hurry, put the mixture in the refrigerator stirring occasionally until it is cool and thick enough to ice your cake.
• 7 i find that box cakes are just fine for this.