Delicious, quick & easy! I used fat-free sweetened condensed milk and it turned out great!

Wow... was this great! It looks more difficult than it actually is, so your family will think you really worked hard on your cake. The recipe makes ample enough icing to fill and frost the cake (even minus all the tasting I did!) I will recommend this one to everyone I know. Thank you!!!

I thought this recipe was indeed very easy and tasty. I only gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because I prefer the recipe using evaporated milk like my mother taught me and used this one when I didn't have any evap. milk on hand. I found that in this recipe, the frosting came out really thick and was difficult to spread. It also didn't have that creamy flavor of the other recipe, but more of a candy flavor that is common with sweetened condensed milk. Overall, I was relatively happy with the results, but will use other method from now on.

I'll never again use a canned frosting again! This was amazingly simple and delicious. I didn't notice the condensed milk taste that others have, but then again, I did boil it just a bit longer than the recipe states to get a deeper color.

Really good - I followed someone else's advice and tempered by egg yolks, so I didn't have any problems with lumpiness. But after cooking it for ten minutes and adding the pecans and coconut it was way too thick, almost like taffy. Tasted good but wouldn't spread. So I just put it back on low heat and added heavy cream until it was smooth enough to spread, turned out great. I like a recipe that you can go back and fix after messing it up!

YUM! But really, how can you go wrong with coconut and pecans! As another reviewer stated, don't be put off by the odd macaroni and cheese-like odor while you're cooking this up. You'll smell the difference immediately when you add the coconut and pecans. Important to note - when cooking with eggs, unless you want scrambled egg bits in your frosting, I would highly recommend heating the butter and condensed milk in the saucepan first, then slowly incorporating a small amount of the hot butter/milk mixture(about 1/2 cup) into your egg yolks in a small bowl, whisking while you add. Once you do that, add your egg mixture into the saucepan. You should be able to avoid cooked egg bits with this method.

awesome recipe, added some coconut to the sponge mixture and halved the recipe(which I found was more than enough) a1

Perfect & so easy!

It has a good taste and I'm sure it would taste better with chocolate cake (I didn't use it). I don't really have much to complain about. Try it!

Good frosting, but I could taste the condensed milk in the recipe. I'm not sure I liked that. I'll make it again with a modification.

Made for husband's birthday cake and he loved it!

Tonight, I had a craving for something sweet but all I had on hand was 1 box of chocolate cake mix and no frosting. I was looking for a recipe with ingredients I had on-hand. This worked out great and was so simple to prepare while my cake was baking. It's easy to spread when you use a rubber spatula.

This is really good, though I never saw any bubbles and got some scorched stuff from the bottom of the pot mixed in. Still really good. Probably my cheap electric stove and cheap pot, nothing to do with the recipe. I started timing the 10 minutes from when the butter melted, maybe I over-cooked it slightly, but once you mix in the pecans, the brown scorch chunks don't show at all. Pretty easy, IMO!

AWESOME!! A LITTLE BUTTERYIER THAN I'D LIKE, BUT STILL EXCELLENT! I TOASTED MY PECANS AND COCONUT FOR EVEN YUMMIER FLAVOR!

not too good, I am used to tasting coconut, but all you can taste is the condensed milk. I'll keep looking for the recipe that'll work for me. thanks though,