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Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most popular of current viral foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Layered Butter Pecan Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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 Pecans chopped
- Prepare unsalted butter diced into 3 pieces
- Take all-purpose flour
- Prepare baking powder
- Prepare baking soda
- Make ready salt
- Take softened unsalted butter
- Make ready sugar
- Prepare large eggs
- Make ready vanilla extract
- Take almond extract
- Take buttermilk
- Make ready whole milk
- Prepare Cream cheese icing
- Take room temp butter
- Take room temp cream cheese
- Take vanilla extract
- Make ready powdered sugar
- Take chopped pecans for topping
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. When cool, blend remaining pecans with Creamy Butter Frosting; spread between layers and on top. I made this cake for my parents birthdays which are a week apart because they both love butter pecan ice cream.
Step by Step 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.
It was a beautiful cake and it got lots of oh's and ah's at the party. This buttery vanilla layer cake is swathed in a creamy toffee frosting made extra luscious with the addition of browned butter and lots of toasted pecans. Top with remaining cake layer, and frost top and sides of cake with remaining frosting. Sprinkle pecan halves in a ring around top edge of cake. Nutty Browned Butter Frosting meets tender pecan cake in this show-stopping three-layer dessert.
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