Layered Butter Pecan Cake
Layered Butter Pecan Cake

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Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most favored 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 which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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.

To begin with this particular 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 cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Layered Butter Pecan Cake:
  1. Get 2 cups Pecans chopped
  2. Prepare 3 Tbsp unsalted butter diced into 3 pieces
  3. Take 3 cups all-purpose flour
  4. Get 2 teaspoons baking powder
  5. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  6. Get 1/2 teaspoon salt
  7. Take 1 cup softened unsalted butter
  8. Take 1 3/4 cup sugar
  9. Make ready 4 large eggs
  10. Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  11. Get 1 teaspoon almond extract
  12. Take 1 cup buttermilk
  13. Prepare 1/2 cup whole milk
  14. Get Cream cheese icing
  15. Make ready 1 cup room temp butter
  16. Take 12 ounces room temp cream cheese
  17. Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  18. Make ready 5 cups powdered sugar
  19. Get 1/2 cup chopped pecans for topping

Watch carefully near the end to avoid burning. Cream remaining butter in large mixing bowl. Butter Pecan Cake is a rich vanilla layer cake loaded with buttered pecans and covered in buttercream frosting. It's a special dessert for any occasion.

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.

Pour melted butter in a baking pan. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. The best butter pecan cake recipe! It's brimming with a rich buttery flavor and swirled with plenty of pecans.

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