Salted Pecan Pie Cake Recipe with step by step pictures. Pecan Cake with a caramel sticky pecan layer on top and a buttery soft cinnamon flavoured sponge cake in the bottom.
Pecan Cake is one of my all time favorite. I love pecan pie, they are my favorite. This cake has all the flavours of a pecan pie and taste amazing.
When i thought of making a dessert with pecan this year for christmas. I wanted to bake a cake with all the flavours of a pecan pie. I made it and it turned out so delicious.
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Tips to bake cake without an oven
1)Use a heavy bottom pan with fitting lid.
2)Ue hard anodised pan for best result.
3)Dont use nonstick pan. since it is not ideal to heat nonstick empty.
4)Use aluminium and indalium pan.
5)You can use a pressure cooker for baking. If you are using pressure cooker, dont use whistle or gasket.
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
Ingredients
FOR BASE:
- Salted Butter - 50 grams
- Brown Sugar - 1 cup
- Corn syrup or Honey - 3 tblsp
- Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp
- Pecans - 1 cup chopped finely
FOR CAKE:
- Butter - 100 grams
- Sugar - 1/2 cup
- Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp
- Eggs - 2
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup
- Cinnamon power - 1 tsp
- Milk - 1/4 cup or as needed
MY 1 CUP MEASURES 240 ML
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
- Take butter, brown sugar, corn syrup in a sauce pan and heat till it is mixed.
- Add in vanilla and mix well.
- Bring it to a boil. Cook for 2 to 3 mins.
- Add in chopped pecans and mix well.
- Now set aside.
- Make cake batter. Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and cream well.
- Add in eggs and mix well.
- Add in flour, baking powder, cinnamon and fold gently.
- Add in milk and fold gently.
- Take the pecan syrup in a cake pan. Spoon batter over the pecan sauce.
- Pop it into the oven and bake for 30 to 35 mins.
- Remove and cool for 5 mins.
- Now unmould.
- Serve.
Pictorial:
1)Start by making sauce. Take butter, brown sugar in a sauce pan
2)Add in corn syrup or honey
3)Add in vanilla
4)Heat it well
5)Let it come to a boil
6)Take pecans
7)Chop it finely
8)Add pecan in with the sauce
9)Mix well
10)Sauce is done
11)Now lets make the cake batter. Take butter, sugar in a bowl
12)Add in vanilla
13)Cream well
14)Add in eggs
15)Cream well
16)Add in flour
17)Add baking powder
18)Add cinnamon powder
19)Add in milk
20)Fold gently
21)Grease a pan.
22)Pour sauce in
23)Spread evenly
24)Spoon batter in
25)bake till done
26)Serve
i made this on valentines and put it in a heart shaped pan. i was worried about putting the nuts on the bottom of the pan, i never made a upside down cake before. it tuned out great. my daughter was at work and was so surprised when she got home…she loved it…immediately she asked when i would make it again. THANKS FOR THIS GREAT RECEIPE
i forgot to rate this recipe its a five