Butter Pecan Cake

"This is from my MIL."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 25mins
Ingredients:
14
Yields:
2 8inch layers
Serves:
10-12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Pour melted butter into a baking pan.
  • Stir in pecans; toast at 350 degrees for 1 0 minutes; set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
  • Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
  • Mix together flour, baking powder, and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
  • Stir in vanilla and 1 cup toasted pecans.
  • Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 8-inch round cake pans.
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes or until test done.
  • Cool in pan for 5 minutes.
  • Remove cakes from pans and continue cooling on wire racks.
  • For frosting, cream butter and sugar together.
  • Add milk and vanilla, beating with electric mixer until light and fluffy.
  • Add additional milk if needed.
  • Stir in remaining pecans.
  • Spread frosting between the layers and over the top and sides of the cake.

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Reviews

  1. This turned out an excellent cake. Moist texture with a rich butter flavor. The pecans added a hearty crunch. The frosting was oh so sweet and rich. My parents came over for dinner and they were impressed and delighted with how this tasted too. Thanks :)
     
  2. I made this as a surprise for my husband to celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary. We both like butter pecan flavored things. Since I have never made a cake from scratch, I was a little apprehensive. This cake turned out superb if I do say so myself. Easy enough for a beginner and the taste was divine. Thanks!
     
  3. My hubby requested a butter pecan cake. I usually use the box version but my grocery store no longer carries it. So I gave this a try. Holy cow was this the ticket! Toasting the pecans in butter makes this cake awesome. I made it in a 9x13 cake pan and baked at 350. It did not fill the pan as much as a box mix does so I shortened the time to 35 minutes and it was perfect. I also used my regular butter cream frosting (per his request). He told me 3 times "this is great" Needless to say I will always use this recipe for the butter pecan requests.
     
  4. Good cake, regular icing recipe, I forgot how sweet the icing is! Next time I’ll make it with buttercream, but it was really good!
     
  5. I made this cake tonight and it turned out terrible!!! It was hard, not moist at all! The frosting and as running and tasted like pure powdered sugar! HELP what could I have done wrong??
     
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