Layered Butter Pecan Cake
Layered Butter Pecan Cake

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, layered butter pecan cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook layered butter pecan cake using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

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