How to Make Appetizing Pecan Cake

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Pecan Cake Butter Pecan Cake is a perfect cake for the holidays! It's brimming with buttery pecan flavor, it has a soft and tender crumb and it's a perfectly moist cake (because dry cakes are the worst). Combine pecans, sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over batter. You can have Pecan Cake using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pecan Cake

  1. It's of chopped pecans.
  2. You need of butter, softened, divided.
  3. It's of sugar.
  4. It's of large eggs.
  5. Prepare of vanilla extract.
  6. You need of all-purpose flour.
  7. You need of baking powder.
  8. It's of salt.
  9. Prepare of milk.

Butter Pecan Sheet Cake is sinfully delicious and completely approachable. With a rich, ooey gooey drizzle, this dessert will keep you coming back for more. Don't let the recipe time fool you, it's actually a simple treat to make. Because it bakes in a sheet pan, this cake is perfect for holiday parties and church potlucks.

Pecan Cake instructions

  1. Place pecans and 1/4 cup butter in a baking pan. Bake at 350° for 10-15 minutes or until toasted, stirring frequently; set aside..
  2. In a large bowl, cream sugar and remaining butter until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Stir in 1-1/3 cups of toasted pecans..
  3. Pour into three greased and floured 9-inch. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely..
  4. Serve once its cool..

Betty Crocker makes the butter pecan cake mix. We collect the box tops and this helps our program!! I first made this cake with caramel cake mix.. This Pecan Pie Cake tastes just like pecan pie but in cake form. I think it tastes even better than pecan pie.