Easiest Way to Make Ultimate Layered Butter Pecan Cake

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, layered butter pecan cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Layered Butter Pecan Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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. Before adding them to the cake batter though, they are tossed with butter and brown sugar and toasted.

To get started with this particular 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. Prepare Pecans chopped
2. Make ready unsalted butter diced into 3 pieces
3. Prepare all-purpose flour
4. Prepare baking powder
5. Prepare baking soda
6. Get salt
7. Take softened unsalted butter
8. Take sugar
9. Get large eggs
10. Make ready vanilla extract
11. Get almond extract
12. Take buttermilk
13. Get whole milk
14. Take Cream cheese icing
15. Get room temp butter
16. Take room temp cream cheese
17. Take vanilla extract
18. Prepare powdered sugar
19. Prepare chopped pecans for topping

Homemade Butter Pecan Cake & Cream Cheese Frosting. This Butter Pecan Cake is so easy anyone can make it, even without prior decorating knowledge! 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.

Steps 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.

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. 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. Spread Butter-Pecan Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake. Nutty Browned Butter Frosting meets tender pecan cake in this show-stopping three-layer dessert.

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