Layered Butter Pecan Cake
Layered Butter Pecan Cake

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, layered butter pecan cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Layered Butter Pecan Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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. This adds buttery goodness and roasted nuttiness to this layer cake.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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:
  1. Make ready 2 cups Pecans chopped
  2. Prepare 3 Tbsp unsalted butter diced into 3 pieces
  3. Prepare 3 cups all-purpose flour
  4. Make ready 2 teaspoons baking powder
  5. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  6. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
  7. Take 1 cup softened unsalted butter
  8. Get 1 3/4 cup sugar
  9. Make ready 4 large eggs
  10. Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  11. Make ready 1 teaspoon almond extract
  12. Prepare 1 cup buttermilk
  13. Make ready 1/2 cup whole milk
  14. Make ready Cream cheese icing
  15. Prepare 1 cup room temp butter
  16. Take 12 ounces room temp cream cheese
  17. Take 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  18. Get 5 cups powdered sugar
  19. Make ready 1/2 cup chopped pecans for topping

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. Three towering layers of moist and fluffy Butter Pecan Cake with an irresistible cream cheese frosting and toasted pecans!

Steps to make Layered Butter Pecan Cake:
  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. Stir together buttermilk and milk, set aside.
  4. In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 20 seconds, set aside.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.

Before adding them to the cake batter though, they are tossed with butter and brown sugar and toasted. Three towering layers of moist and fluffy Butter Pecan Cake with an irresistible cream cheese frosting and toasted pecans! So admittedly, I am not a layer cake person. I LOVE eating layer cakes, but I do not like making them. Watch carefully near the end to avoid burning.

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