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butter Crisco light brown sugar white sugar eggs milk flour salt baking powder vanilla pecans Frosting butter light brown sugar milk pecans
Viewed: 102 - Published at: 8 years agoIngredients
- 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
- Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup pecans, chopped
Method
- 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.
