Coconut Pecan Candy or Frosting
Coconut Pecan Candy or Frosting

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, coconut pecan candy or frosting. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Coconut Pecan Candy or Frosting is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Coconut Pecan Candy or Frosting is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Coconut Pecan Frosting (aka German Chocolate Cake Frosting) is super easy to make! My husband requests German chocolate cake every year for his birthday. The only thing he likes better than the cake is the coconut pecan frosting.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook coconut pecan candy or frosting using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Coconut Pecan Candy or Frosting:
  1. Get For Candy:
  2. Make ready 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  3. Get 1/2 cup evaporated milk
  4. Make ready 1/2 cup corn syrup
  5. Get 1 stick real butter
  6. Get 2 cups shredded coconut
  7. Make ready 1-2 cups pecans. Put as little or many as you like
  8. Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  9. Take Notes:
  10. Take You can drop like a cookie or pour into pan and cut into squares

Sure, a moist German chocolate cake is rich and decadent on its own, but no chocolate cake is complete without frosting. Our Coconut-Pecan Frosting Recipe is the perfect German chocolate cake icing. Thick, nutty, and delicious, we dare say. A sweet, caramely mix of coconut and pecans that can make you forget there's a whole dessert underneath it.

Instructions to make Coconut Pecan Candy or Frosting:
  1. Line a baking sheet or pan with wax or parchment paper. Set aside.
  2. In a heavy bottom saucepan, mix sugar, evaporated milk, corn syrup and butter.
  3. On medium high heat, stir until mixture comes to a rolling boil.
  4. Without stirring, let mixture boil 5 minutes or to 235 on a thermometer. Soft ball stage.
  5. After time is up, remove from heat and add vanilla.
  6. Stir then add coconut and pecans.
  7. Stir off heat about 5 minutes until mixture starts to thicken some.
  8. Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper lined baking sheets. Or you can pour mixture into pan and cut.
  9. When completely cool, store in layers with wax paper between to keep from sticking.
  10. If using for frosting, let cool stirring occasionally until it thickens and is spreadable. Put in between layers of cake or frost 9x13 cake.

It's the yummiest, easiest-ever candy you can mix up in minutes! Toasting the pecans and coconut, plus adding a good dose of salt takes old-school German Chocolate frosting to a whole new delicious level. I increased the amount of pecans and the coconut and toasted both of them for more flavor before mixing them into the cooked sweet milk and egg yolks. Stir in the coconut and the pecans. Cool the frosting to room temperature, Once cool spread it on German Chocolate Cake or some other cake of This frosting is made for the freezer.

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