German Chocolate Cake

I love this German Chocolate Cake Frosting!  

 This mini German Chocolate bundt cake is from 2015. 

This cupcake is from 2016

This beautiful cake made its way into the Flops section.  I guess it is a little lopsided.  At least that is what Mike thinks.  I know he is right so I took pictures from the angles it wasn't as noticeable.  And if that wasn't enough to make it into the flops section... the poster board fall onto the cake. 

The picture below explains everything.

2016 Cake

Ingredients

• 4 egg yolks
• One 12-ounce can evaporated milk                                          
1 cup granulated sugar  
4 tablespoons dk brown sugar
3/4 stick butter                                                                            
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract                                                          
• 1-1/3 cups sweetened grated coconut                                        
1 1/4  cup pecans broken into small pieces 

Baking Instructions

In a  jelly roll pan, toast the pecans and  coconut at 350 about 8-10 minutes, watch closely. 
See picture below, the coconut is toasted but not brown.

Now in about a 2-quart heavy saucepan, whisk evaporate milk and egg yolks well; then add the sugars. Cut the butter into pieces and add to pan.  Now heat on mediium high, whisking constantly, the butter will melt as it is warmed. It will start to thicken up as it reaches the boiling point. Once it starts to boil, keep stirring about 30 seconds more, then remove from heat, about twelve minutes from start to finish.  Pour through a sieve into a clean medium-sized heatproof bowl.

This traps some little bits of egg but probably wouldn't be noticed.   I won't sieve again.  I actually ate the little clumps of eggs and they tastes great.   

Stir in vanilla thoroughly.

Let cool at room, then chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Remove after 30 minutes and stir in the coconut and pecans well. .

DONUT CAKE

Michael loves donuts so I decided to make him a donut cake for his birthday.  Since his birthday is December 24th so I am always busy and stressed.   I was even too lazy to go to the actual donut shop to get the donuts, I won't make that mistake again.  This cake would have been a big hit if I had gotten Michael's favorite donuts from the donut shop. 

I was looking at old pictures and saw this donut

cake I made for my youngest son last year.  Boy, I must be sick of making cakes, both boys got donut cakes. 

Apple Cobbler Dump Cake

Recipe from: Come Together Kids

The Apple dump cake I made last week with pie filling wasn't good..  I loved the topping and the recipe is so easy.   So, I found this recipe and love it.  This recipe is so easy and delicious, my favorite apple recipe so far.

Ingredients
* 5 fresh apples peeled  (1/4 in. thick) 
* box of yellow cake mix
* 1 stick of butter

Directions:
1. Spray a pie dish with cooking spray.
2. Dump the apples in the dish and spread them evenly over the bottom.
3. Pour a layer of dry cake mix over the apples. (You might not have to use the whole bag, use just enough to cover the apples with a decent layer)

4. Melt a stick of butter and pour the melted butter evenly over the cake mix.
5.  Sprinkle a little apple pie spice or cinnamon over the top.
6. Bake at 350* for about 35-45 minutes until the top is slightly golden and the apples are hot and bubbly. (Note: with about 10-15 minutes left in the cooking time, peek in at your cobbler. If you notice there are some dry patches of cake mix, you can sprinkle just a little bit of water on them so it's not powdery. Then continue baking)
7. Optional- scoop of vanilla ice cream and drizzle with caramel sauce.

Pumpkin Delight

                               Recipe from "The Best Laid Plans"
I found this great recipe on "The Best Laid Plans," Blog.  Not only does she have great recipes but here is a hand made Scarf.  This will be my next project, I just need to go through my old shirts.

Now back to the Pumpkin Delight, both my sons loved it, but Trevor surprised me because he hasn't been eating any of my pumpkin dishes lately.   He asked for 5 servings, I only gave him 2.   I recommend this to anyone that likes pumpkin, it is one of the easiest desserts and very delicious.  I will definitely make it for Thanksgiving.

Ingredients:

1 Duncan Hines Butter Yellow Cake Mix
1 15 ounce pumpkin puree
1 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1 8 ounce Cool Whip
1 cup Heath Bits
Caramel Sauce - I use Hershey's squirt bottle

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Put pumpkin puree in a medium mixing bowl and slowly add cake mix while mixing. Pour in to a sprayed 9 x 13 baking pan or casserole dish.
• Bake for 25 minutes.
• Let cool for 10 minutes.
• Using the handle of a wooden spoon, poke holes in to the cake.
• Pour the can of sweetened condensed milk over the cake evenly.
• Cool for a minimum of 30 minutes. I let mine cool a couple of hours because I had other things to do.
• Spread Cool Whip over the top of the cake.
• Drizzle the caramel syrup over the top. I used a zig zag motion.
• Sprinkle Heath bits.
• Chill for at least 3 hours but can be chilled overnight.
• Enjoy!

Mandatory Mooch Apple Dump cake

Recipe from The Mandatory Mooch

I love Dump Cake recipes, so when I saw

Apple Dump Cake I had to try it.  I wondered

if I would like it because I am not a big fan

of apple pie.  But, It is really good.

I tried the same recipe but sliced 5 apples instead of the canned pie filling.  

I preferred the sliced apples over canned pie filling
.

Ingredients

2 cans apple pie filling or 5 evenly sliced apples
2 Tbsp. cinnamon
1 box yellow cake mix (I used french vanilla)
2 sticks butter
1 cup pecans, chopped

whipped cream or ice cream

Preheat oven to 375 Bake 45 minutes or until golden brown.

Dump two cans of apple pie filling into a 9×13 pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Crumble the dry cake mix over the apple mixture. Sprinkle the pecans over the cake mix. Slice each stick of butter into 12 equal pieces, and place the pieces on top. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.