Sunny Sunday- Birthday

"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
--Lucille Ball

I love my followers!

Thanks everyone for Following my blog! I can't believe I have 20 followers! Because I love all of you so much, instead of just one giveaway, I'm going to have a week of giveaways! I'm hoping it will be next week but if I can't craft fast enough, then it will be the week of my birthday...You know what I like that better! Starting on my birthday (the 27th), instead of asking for gifts, I'm going to give gifts! Check in every day that week and I'll have a new item to give away! Hooray!!! I'm super excited!!

Homemade, well sort of, German Chocolate Cake

My mom's 50th birthday day was a couple of weeks ago and my siblings and I threw her a party. It was really nice and simple but the one thing she really wanted was a German Chocolate Cake. Like I have said before, I procrastinate so the night before I had to make something. I mixed together a boxed Chocolate Cake mix and decided to make the topping from scratch.


I found the recipe for the topping at http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/German-Chocolate-Cake-Frosting/Detail.aspx

• 1 cup Evaporated Milk
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 3 Egg Yolks
• 1/2 cup Butter
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup Pecans
• 1 1/3 cup Flaked Coconut

You combine the evaporated milk, brown sugar, egg yolks, butter, and vanilla and cook over low heat stirring constantly. I don't think I added the egg yolks because I was talking to my cousin while I made this so when it didn't thicken I turned the heat to high and boiled it until it was thick so if you miss that part, it will still work. Then remove from the heat and stir in the pecans and coconut. It turned out great and my mom loved it! It just goes to show that if you spend just a little bit of time you can tum a simple box cake mix into something special.