Coconut Pecan Filling (For German Chocolate Cake)

Total time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

1 cup sugar (see note below)
1 cup evaporated milk
3 large egg yolks
8 tablespoons butter (1 stick), cut into small pieces
1⅓ cups flaked unsweetened dried coconut (see note below)
1⅓ cups chopped pecans

Instructions

Combine sugar, evaporated milk, egg yolks, and butter in a medium saucepan. Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to separate eggs.
Cook, whisking constantly, over medium-heat until the mixture is thickened and bubbling gently around the edges.
Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring, for 1 to 2 minutes more.
Remove from heat and stir in unsweetened coconut and pecans.
Let cool until spreadable.

Comments

Note: If you use sweetened flaked coconut, reduce sugar to ½ cup.

Use to frost the layers of a German chocolate cake.

This keeps, refrigerated, for about 1 week. Soften before using.

If you have a nut allergy, try making coconut filling to fill a German chocolate cake.

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Frostings, Fillings, Glazes

Recipe from Joy of Cooking, by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker. New York: Scribner (1997).