Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, layered butter pecan cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have layered butter pecan cake using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Layered Butter Pecan Cake:
- Get 2 cups Pecans chopped
- Get 3 Tbsp unsalted butter diced into 3 pieces
- Make ready 3 cups all-purpose flour
- Get 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Get 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Take 1 cup softened unsalted butter
- Make ready 1 3/4 cup sugar
- Make ready 4 large eggs
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 teaspoon almond extract
- Get 1 cup buttermilk
- Get 1/2 cup whole milk
- Take Cream cheese icing
- Prepare 1 cup room temp butter
- Prepare 12 ounces room temp cream cheese
- Take 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Make ready 5 cups powdered sugar
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped pecans for topping
It's brimming with buttery pecan flavor, it has a soft and tender Butter Pecan Cake. You will want to savor each and every bite of this cake! Not only is the cake itself perfectly delicious but it's coated with a luscious cream cheese frosting, because. This Butter Pecan Cake is so easy anyone can make it, even without prior decorating knowledge!
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.
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. We the McDuffies are here to serve you up! My husband wanted to try a new cake recipe so we did it together! Enjoy our shenanigans in the kitchen.
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