My hubby loves his sweets, so for his birthday I gave him a choice of birthday desserts by flavor category. He could choose from chocolate and peanut butter, German chocolate, toffee and chocolate, or pecan pie, and I would choose the format and recipe.
Ultimately we landed on the pecan pie flavor, and I knew I wanted to make a Pecan Pie Cake. It's actually a pretty easy recipe, and I successfully proved you can mess it up and still have it taste delicious.
The recipe calls for dark corn syrup, and since it is listed with the cake ingredients, I figured that's where it went. It did not register with me that the brushing the finished cakes with corn syrup was where it came in. Instead, I mixed it into the batter. Ah well, it still worked.
Some suggestions--this is way too much batter for two pans, the bottom of my oven is proof. Use three and cut down the baking time a bit. Make sure you run a knife or spatula around the cake pans before dumping the layers out. Mine stuck quite a bit, and as a result, didn't look too pretty in a stack. Finally, toast some pecan halves and add them to the top just to make the pecan pie look a bit clearer.
I am loving the dense pound cake-like texture, plus the sweetness of the topping. It a great cake, even if a bit unconventional.
Ultimately we landed on the pecan pie flavor, and I knew I wanted to make a Pecan Pie Cake. It's actually a pretty easy recipe, and I successfully proved you can mess it up and still have it taste delicious.
The recipe calls for dark corn syrup, and since it is listed with the cake ingredients, I figured that's where it went. It did not register with me that the brushing the finished cakes with corn syrup was where it came in. Instead, I mixed it into the batter. Ah well, it still worked.
Some suggestions--this is way too much batter for two pans, the bottom of my oven is proof. Use three and cut down the baking time a bit. Make sure you run a knife or spatula around the cake pans before dumping the layers out. Mine stuck quite a bit, and as a result, didn't look too pretty in a stack. Finally, toast some pecan halves and add them to the top just to make the pecan pie look a bit clearer.
I am loving the dense pound cake-like texture, plus the sweetness of the topping. It a great cake, even if a bit unconventional.
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