Nannie's Butter Pecan Cake recipe

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Ingredients

1 ⅓ cups coarsely chopped pecans
1 ¼ cups butter, divided
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Nutrition Info

648.2 calories
carbohydrate: 72.5 g
cholesterol: 137.4 mg
fat: 37.3 g
fiber: 2.5 g
protein: 8.9 g
saturatedFat: 16.5 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 416.1 mg
sugar: 42.1 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Combine pecans and 1/4 cup butter in a baking pan.

  2. Bake pecans in the preheated oven until toasted and fragrant, about 20 minutes. Let cool.

  3. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.

  4. Combine remaining 1 cup butter and sugar in a large bowl, beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Mix in flour mixture, alternating with milk and vanilla extract, until batter is smooth. Fold in pecans.

  5. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).

  6. Pour batter into the prepared pan.

  7. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.

Recipe Yield

1 tube cake

Recipe Note

My grandmother use to make this for me all the time when I was little. Love it!

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