Layered Butter Pecan Cake
Layered Butter Pecan Cake

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, layered butter pecan cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Combine the melted butter, pecans and brown sugar in a medium sized bowl and toss to coat. 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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook layered butter pecan cake using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

It's bursting with buttery flavors and is sure to impress. A classic moist white cake with brown butter toasted pecans and rich buttercream frosting. If you're a fan of butter pecan ice cream like me, you'll be in true bliss with this cake version of the ice cream. Cream remaining butter in large mixing bowl.

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. Sweet and creamy white chocolate flavors this gorgeous butter-pecan layer cake. Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.

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