Steps to Prepare Ultimate Layered Butter Pecan Cake
by Brent Briggs
Layered Butter Pecan Cake
Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, layered butter pecan cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Layered Butter Pecan Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have 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:
Take 2 cups Pecans chopped
Take 3 Tbsp unsalted butter diced into 3 pieces
Take 3 cups all-purpose flour
Get 2 teaspoons baking powder
Make ready 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
Make ready 1 cup softened unsalted butter
Get 1 3/4 cup sugar
Prepare 4 large eggs
Get 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Prepare 1 teaspoon almond extract
Take 1 cup buttermilk
Take 1/2 cup whole milk
Prepare Cream cheese icing
Get 1 cup room temp butter
Get 12 ounces room temp cream cheese
Take 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Get 5 cups powdered sugar
Take 1/2 cup chopped pecans for topping
Steps to make Layered Butter Pecan Cake:
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
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.
Stir together buttermilk and milk, set aside.
In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 20 seconds, set aside.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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