Easiest Way to Make Homemade Layered Butter Pecan Cake

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, layered butter pecan cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Layered Butter Pecan Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have 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. Make ready Pecans chopped
2. Take unsalted butter diced into 3 pieces
3. Get all-purpose flour
4. Get baking powder
5. Make ready baking soda
6. Take salt
7. Take softened unsalted butter
8. Make ready sugar
9. Prepare large eggs
10. Take vanilla extract
11. Take almond extract
12. Get buttermilk
13. Take whole milk
14. Prepare Cream cheese icing
15. Prepare room temp butter
16. Prepare room temp cream cheese
17. Take vanilla extract
18. Take powdered sugar
19. Get 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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