Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, layered butter pecan cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The cake layers are a moist, buttery vanilla cake spotted with toasted pecans. The flavor of the cake alone is delicious. The pecans add a whole other level of awesome. Before adding them to the cake batter though, they are tossed with butter and brown sugar and toasted.
Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Layered Butter Pecan Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have layered butter pecan cake using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Layered Butter Pecan Cake:
- Get 2 cups Pecans chopped
- Get 3 Tbsp unsalted butter diced into 3 pieces
- Prepare 3 cups all-purpose flour
- Get 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 cup softened unsalted butter
- Prepare 1 3/4 cup sugar
- Make ready 4 large eggs
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 teaspoon almond extract
- Make ready 1 cup buttermilk
- Prepare 1/2 cup whole milk
- Get Cream cheese icing
- Get 1 cup room temp butter
- Take 12 ounces room temp cream cheese
- Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Make ready 5 cups powdered sugar
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped pecans for topping
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. A luxurious buttercream frosting is layered between a homemade butter pecan cake mix. This pairing of textures and flavors is my favorite part of the recipe. For even more butter pecan flavor, the pecans are literally browned in butter.
Instructions to make Layered Butter Pecan Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and line 3 9-inch round cake pans with parchment paper, butter parchment paper and lightly dust pans with flour
- Melt 3 Tbsp butter in a skillet over medium heat. Once melted add pecans and cook until slightly browned, tossing frequently, about 4 minutes. Pour and spread onto a sheet of parchment paper or a baking sheet. Set aside and allow to cool.
- Stir together buttermilk and milk, set aside.
- In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 20 seconds, set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment whip together butter and sugar until fluffy. Mix in eggs one at a time adding in vanilla and almond extract with last egg.
- Mix in flour alternating with milk mixture: Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix on low speed just until combined, then add in 1/2 of the buttermilk mixture and mix just until combined then repeat process once more. Finish by mixing in remaining 1/3 of the flour mixture and mix just until nearly combined.
- Fold in pecans: Remove bowl from stand mixer and fold in pecans (fold batter until there's not longer streaks in the batter). Divide batter evenly among prepared baking pans.
- Bake until set: Bake in preheated oven 23 - 28 minutes until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool in cake pans 10 minutes.
- Let cake cool completely on wire rack: Run a knife around edges of cake to ensure the are loosened and invert onto wire racks to cool completely. Once cool frost with cream cheese frosting and top with pecans.
- For the cream cheese frosting: In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment whip together butter and cream cheese until smooth. Mix in vanilla and powdered sugar and blend until smooth and fluffy.
This pairing of textures and flavors is my favorite part of the recipe. For even more butter pecan flavor, the pecans are literally browned in butter. This adds buttery goodness and roasted nuttiness to this layer cake. Watch carefully near the end to avoid burning. Cream remaining butter in large mixing bowl.
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