Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, layered butter pecan cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Layered Butter Pecan Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first 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:

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

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. Butter Pecan Cake is a perfect cake for the holidays! It's brimming with buttery pecan flavor, it has a soft and tender Butter Pecan Cake.

Instructions 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.

You will want to savor each and every bite of this cake! Not only is the cake itself perfectly delicious but it's coated with a luscious cream cheese frosting, because. 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. Top with remaining cake layer, and frost top and sides of cake with remaining frosting. Sprinkle pecan halves in a ring around top edge of cake.

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