This moist Toffee Pecan Bundt Cake has such a scrumptious mixture of caramel, toffee, and pecans! It’s tender with a positive crumb, and has great taste.
Desk of Contents
Why we Love It
- This scratch recipe is straightforward to make
- It’s Moist and Tender
- Caramel, Toffee, and Pecans are excellent collectively
- It is an awesome cake for birthdays, potlucks, or simply as a result of!
Components for Toffee Pecan Cake
Listed below are the components that you’ll want for this scrumptious bundt cake! *You will discover the complete, printable recipe card additional down on this put up!
Unsalted Butter, softened (It should not be utterly delicate, however softened sufficient that it “dents” when touched). We use unsalted in order that we’ve got extra management over the quantity of salt that we are going to add to the recipe
Eggs Provides construction, assists with emulsifying and leavening
Sugar Provides taste, moisture, and interferes with gluten formation (making a extra tender cake).
Gentle Brown Sugar Provides much more moisture and a pleasant caramel taste because it comprises molasses.
Cake Flour Cake flour has a decrease protein content material, making for a softer, extra tender crumb. (No cake flour? See Notes part of the recipe card for a substitution.)
Baking Powder for leavening
Salt provides taste and balances the sweetness of the cake
Bitter Cream Provides richness, and the acidity interferes with gluten formation which softens the feel.
Vanilla Extract For taste
Milk We use complete milk for added richness
Vegetable Oil for added moisture
Toffee Bits Enhances the caramel taste of the cake! In case you can’t discover toffee bits, you may as well crush a Heath Bar.
Chopped Pecans An exquisite complement to the caramel and toffee taste.
Easy methods to Make a Toffee Pecan Bundt Cake
You will discover the complete directions for this recipe additional down on this put up. Here’s a fast rundown of the steps for this scrumptious toffee cake.
- First, preheat the oven to 325 levels. Grease and flour bundt pan or tube pan. (See Notes for extra pan particulars)
- In a separate bowl mix the cake flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk no less than 30 seconds to mix. Put aside.
- In one other bowl mix the bitter cream, vanilla, oil and milk. Stir and put aside.
- Within the bowl of your mixer, add the butter and beat on low to medium velocity till clean. Slowly add the white and brown sugar, mixing on medium velocity till the combination is lighter in colour and fluffy, roughly 3 to five minutes ( a bit longer if utilizing a hand mixer).
- Add the eggs one by one, mixing after every egg till the yellow of the yolk is mixed in.
- With the mixer on low, add the dry components alternately with the moist components, starting and ending with the dry components. (We did three additions of the dry components, alternating with two additions of moist.) Cease & scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula as wanted (a few times).Combine simply till mixed.
- As soon as the batter is blended, utilizing a spatula fold within the toffee bits and the chopped pecans. The cake batter is thick, this can assist to maintain the nuts and toffee bits from sinking to the underside of the pan. This recipe makes 8 cups of batter.
- Scoop batter into the ready bundt pan. Easy the highest with the again of a spoon. Bake for 45-50 minutes (modify time as wanted).
- The cake is completed when a toothpick inserted into the middle pulls out clear or with only a few crumbs hooked up. Let the cake cool within the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes earlier than turning out.
Caramel Glaze
- This cake is scrumptious simply as it’s, however we needed so as to add one other layer of taste with a simple caramel glaze!
- Caramel sauce is the proper addition to the brown sugar, toffee, and pecan taste of this recipe.
- This cooked caramel glaze is ready in a saucepan on the stovetop. It’s a easy mixture of butter, brown sugar, heavy cream, salt, vanilla extract, and light-weight corn syrup. (The sunshine corn syrup helps to stop sugar crystals type forming).
- After simmering for 5-6 minutes, the saucepan of caramel sauce must be faraway from the warmth with a view to cool.
- After cooling a bit, pour the glaze right into a casserole dish to hurry up the cooling course of.
Adorning the Bundt Cake
As soon as the cake has cooled, and the caramel has cooled to the specified quantity, it’s time to apply the glaze!
You’ll be able to spoon the caramel glaze over the cake if you need. We added ours utilizing a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away. (You can too do the identical with a ziplock bag with the nook snipped away).
Drizzle the caramel sauce over the glaze, after which sprinkle with toffee bits, crushed pecans, or each! (We used toffee bits on prime).
Often Requested Questions
Sure it could! Take a look at our Toffee Pecan Layer Cake. That is the favored layer cake recipe that we based mostly this recipe on.
Sure! If baking effectively upfront, enable the cake to chill nearly utterly earlier than wrapping with plastic wrap adopted by aluminum foil. Label with the date, and freeze for as much as three months!
When it’s time to thaw the cake, place within the fridge the evening earlier than (nonetheless wrapped), after which take away the subsequent morning to complete thawing on kitchen counter.
Retailer in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as three days .
Extra Caramel Desserts
We have now extra scrumptious caramel cake recipes to share with you! Listed below are only a few favorites so that you can attempt!
Vanilla Cake with Caramel Buttercream
Caramel Cake with Caramel Frosting
Benefit from the Recipe!
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- 1 ½ sticks (170g) unsalted butter, softened Needs to be simply delicate sufficient that it dents when pressed.
- 3 giant eggs, room temperature (to heat rapidly — put right into a bowl with very heat water for 10 minutes.)
- 1 cup (200g) white sugar
- 1 cup (217g) gentle brown sugar (packed into measuring cup)
- 3 cups (342g) cake flour (in case you don’t have a scale, spoon right into a measuring cup and degree off with again of a knife) See NOTE under for cake flour substitute
- 1 Tablespoon (12g) baking powder
- ½ teaspoon (3g) salt
- 1 cup (242g) bitter cream
- 2 teaspoons (8g) vanilla extract
- ½ cup (121g) milk (we used complete milk)
- ⅓ cup (68g) vegetable oil (we desire canola oil)
- ½ cup (72g) toffee bits (we used Heath Bits O’ Brickle toffee bits)
- ½ cup (49g) chopped pecans
Components for Caramel Sauce
- ½ stick (57g) unsalted butter (if utilizing salted butter, don’t add further salt)
- 1 cup (217g) gentle brown sugar (packed into measuring cup)
- ½ cup (126g) heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon (2g) salt
- 1 teaspoon (4g) vanilla extract
- 1 Tablespoon (18g) gentle corn syrup
For the Cake
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Preheat oven to 325 levels. Grease and flour bundt pan or tube pan. (See Notes for extra pan particulars)
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In a separate bowl mix the cake flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk no less than 30 seconds to mix. Put aside.
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In one other bowl mix the bitter cream, vanilla, oil and milk. Stir and put aside.
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Within the bowl of your mixer, add the butter and beat on low to medium velocity till clean. Slowly add the white and brown sugar, mixing on medium velocity till the combination is lighter in colour and fluffy, roughly 3 to five minutes ( a bit longer if utilizing a hand mixer).
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Add the eggs one by one, mixing after every egg till the yellow of the yolk is mixed in.
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With the mixer on low, add the dry components alternately with the moist components, starting and ending with the dry components. (We did three additions of the dry components, alternating with two additions of moist.) Cease & scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula as wanted (a few times).Combine simply till mixed.
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As soon as the batter is blended, utilizing a spatula fold within the toffee bits and the chopped pecans. The cake batter is thick, this can assist to maintain the nuts and toffee bits from sinking to the underside of the pan.
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Scoop batter into the ready bundt pan. Easy the highest with the again of a spoon. Bake for 45-50 minutes (modify time as wanted). The cake is completed when a toothpick inserted into the middle pulls out clear or with only a few crumbs hooked up. Let the cake cool within the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes earlier than turning out.
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This recipe makes about 8 cups of batter
Caramel Sauce
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Utilizing a medium dimension sauce pan (deep sufficient to stop boil over) soften the butter over medium warmth.
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Add the brown sugar and the remaining components.
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Stir to mix, attempt to preserve combination off the edges of the pan. As soon as the combination begins to boil, cut back the warmth to low.
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Simmer for five to six minutes, examine the pot ensuring it is not going to boil over.
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Remember the fact that the caramel with thicken up a bit because it cools. You’ll be able to pour it into an extended glass casserole dish if you’d like it to chill extra rapidly.
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Makes 1 cup caramel sauce. It may be saved within the fridge in an hermetic container as much as 2 weeks.
Adorning the Cake
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As soon as the cake has cooled, and the caramel has cooled sufficient to thicken to desired quantity, you possibly can spoon the glaze over the cake or pipe it with a piping bag. A piping bag offers a bit extra control- we merely snipped the top away to create a small gap within the bag. You are able to do the identical with a ziplock bag and snip away one nook.
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High with toffee bits, crushed pecans, or each. (Ours is topped with toffee bits).
Bundt Cake Pan: Our bundt pan has a baking capability of 12 cups, and measures 10 inches throughout.
In case you are utilizing a distinct dimension pan, the baking occasions could range. If utilizing a smaller pan, the final rule of thumb is to not fill the pan greater than ⅔ full.
