How to have CHOCOLATE on a red, white and blue holiday!

OK, admittedly this cake picture is from last

July 4th....

That is obvious if you have read how I have no stove.

(Although we did go shopping for one today....but I managed to get away without buying one...

I'm holding out for a summer-free-of-stove!)

Back to the cake...This is a very

fast and easy way to get

some chocolate in a

red, white and blue holiday!

I simply made ----

from a box mix---

a German chocolate cake.

(Renamed American chocolate of course!)

BUT, I did make the frosting from scratch.

ICING FOR GERMAN AMERICAN CHOCOLATE CAKE

 

1 stick butter

1 c. sugar

1 c. evaporated milk

3 egg yolks

1 c. pecans

1 c. coconut

1 tsp. vanilla

Melt butter, add sugar, milk, and egg yolks. Cook until it thickens. Add pecans, coconut, and vanilla. Cool.

Really.

That is all there is to it.

Cake made from a mix.

Quick and easy icing.

Put the cake on a 4th of July decorative plate of some type.

Plant some "indoor" sparklers in the middle...

and you are ready to celebrate the

4th

with a real bang!