Recipe

Butter Pecan Cake Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Auntybea / All my dishes 1 year, 6 months ago This is a delicious butter pecan cake that I made for my mother-in-law's 75th birthday celebration to feed 100 people. At the last moment before taking it to the hall I realized it look a little drab and I didn't know what to do. Well my pansies we... More Prep:10m Cook:30m Servings:12	Auntybea
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Ingredients

3 tbsp. butter

1 1/3 cup pecans - chopped

2/3 cup butter, softened

1 1/3 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

2/3 cup milk

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla (vanilla bean would be marvellous in this cake)

Frosting:

3 tbsp. butter, softened

3 cups icing sugar

3 tbsp. milk, plus 1 tsp. milk

3/4 tsp. vanilla

Reserved toasted pecans

Directions

Pre-heat oven to 350 F.

Melt 3 tbsp. butter in a 13x9x2 inch baking pan. Stir in pecans and bake at 350 F for 10 minutes. Cool.

Cream softened butter in a large mixing bowl; gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy and sugar is dissolved. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in vanilla and 1 cup pecans, reserving remaining pecans for frosting.

Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 9 " cake pans. Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes or until cake tests done. Do not over-bake this cake or it is dry. Cool layers in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely.

Spread top and sides of cooled cake with butter pecan frosting (cream cheese icing is delicious too).

Frosting:

Cream butter; add sugar, milk and vanilla, beating until light and fluffy. Stir in reserved toasted pecans.

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