Caramel Nut Pound Cake
photo by Marsha D.
- Ready In:
- 1hr 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
18
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup Crisco
- 1 lb light brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 5 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 3 cups plain flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
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Frosting
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 1⁄2 cup pecans, chopped
directions
- Important: All ingredients must be at room temperature.
- Mix butter and Crisco.
- Add brown sugar, a little at a time, and beat well.
- Add white sugar and beat until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- Add vanilla.
- Sift flour, salt and baking powder together.
- Add flour mixture alternately with milk. Fold in pecans.
- Pour into a greased tube cake pan.
- Bake at 325F for 1 1/2 hours.
- When cake comes out of oven, begin making frosting. (Frosting will harden if made first.)
- While cake is warm, pour frosting over cake.
- Frosting: Combine butter, brown sugar and milk in saucepan and cook 2 1/2 minutes after coming to a boil.
- Remove from heat.
- Add pecans and pour immediately over warm cake.
Reviews
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YUM! this was wonderful. A huge hit with all our friends from the lake. I can see why it was prize winning :) I was alittle worried with the frosting cause it was just dripping down the cake but when it harden it was great. Made this for the Cake-A-Thon for our beloved Chef I Am. Thanks for sharing your Aunt Sallie's cake :)
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Wilmington, 73
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