11/1/2018 – This was the first cake Mary made in the new oven at the farm. It was inspired by the recipe here. It was also made for Thanksgiving 2023 and enjoyed by all.
INGREDIENTS:
- 4 sticks butter
- 4 cups sugar
- 4 cups flour (cake or all-purpose)
- 8 large eggs
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 2 to 3 tsp of vanilla flavoring
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 jar of caramel ice cream topping
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Leave cream cheese, butter, and eggs out to reach room temperature.
- In mixer, cream butter, cream cheese, and sugar until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time. Then, add flour, one cup at a time. Last, add vanilla flavoring.
- Grease and flour tube/bundt pan and pour in batter. Pour in batter first, then sprinkle pecans and brown sugar on top (a cup or a little more of each). Lightly press into the batter.
- Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. (You may want to tent the top with foil to keep the nuts from scorching.) Then, increase the temperature to 325 degrees and bake for an additional 30 minutes. Test the cake with a fork or wooden skewer to check for doneness. The utensil should come out dry and clean (no batter).
- Remove from the oven and allow a few minutes to cool before removing from the pan.
- When you invert onto a plate, you may lose a few nuts, but most will bake into the top layer of crust.
- Then, turn the cake onto another plate so that the nuts are on top. The original recipe calls to “Drizzle with a jar of caramel ice cream topping. Heat from the cake will make the caramel melt over the pecans.” That would have been far to much sugar for us so it was not added.
