Husbands Favorite Icing...

German chocolate cake is my favorite. Over this past weekend our family had the flu bug. Upon being nursed back to health my husband had a request "can you please make me a cake?" Absolutely, was my reply I know he loves german chocolate too so that is what he got. Now, I totally cheated and used a box mix, I haven't found a homemade recipe that I absolutely love yet. But I did however make this yummy eat out of the gladware frosting. We've been eating it by the spoonfuls!! It's good on just about anything, even vanilla wafers!! The cake is long gone, I made a bundt cake and we just topped it with the frosting, I have leftovers so I'm thinking about german chocolate brownies later this week?
The Recipe

German Chocolate Frosting

3 egg yolks

1 c. sugar

1 c. evaporated milk

1 1/3 c. chopped nuts

1/2 c. butter

1 tsp. almond extract

2/3 c. sweetened shredded coconut

1/4 tsp. salt

Melt butter in sauce pan, add sugar, milk, and egg yolks. Stir until thickened. Add remaining ingrediants. Cool.

If you are not a big coconut fan, no big deal leave it out. And I actually ran out of pecans so I added sliced almonds and it worked just fine, I think it turned out prettier. Also, I love adding salt to my sweets, it takes it to a whole new level, so add the salt and taste, you may want to add more, this was a guesstimate, so start out with a little and then add as needed, I like the flavors to end with a taste of salt, not too much, but you do want to taste it.