Layered Butter Pecan Cake
Layered Butter Pecan Cake

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Nutty Browned Butter Frosting meets tender pecan cake in this show-stopping three-layer dessert. When browning the butter for the frosting, pour the butter into a bowl as soon as it turns golden brown, or it will continue to cook and get too dark. This cake is perfect for fall birthdays or Thanksgiving dessert. The cake layers are a moist, buttery vanilla cake spotted with toasted pecans.

Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Layered Butter Pecan Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

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

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. Nothing makes a more impressive presentation at a Southern holiday gathering than gorgeous, layered Butter Pecan Cake iced with a dreamy spread of whipped vanilla frosting and a generous topping of chopped pecans!

Instructions 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.

This adds buttery goodness and roasted nuttiness to this layer cake. Nothing makes a more impressive presentation at a Southern holiday gathering than gorgeous, layered Butter Pecan Cake iced with a dreamy spread of whipped vanilla frosting and a generous topping of chopped pecans! The interior is moist, tender, full of buttery goodness, and loaded with big pecan flavor. Watch carefully near the end to avoid burning. Butter Pecan Cake is a rich vanilla layer cake loaded with buttered pecans and covered in buttercream frosting.

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