Southern Praline Cake with Southern
Praline Icing
Ingredients:
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 & 1/2 cups Granulated sugar
1 cup Light brown sugar, firmly packed
4 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 & 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
Grease & flour three nine-inch
round cake pans and preheat oven to 350°F. Cream the butter or margarine with
both Granulated sugar and light brown sugar until very light and fluffy, then
add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift the flour
with the baking powder, baking soda and salt and add to the batter alternately
with the milk, beginning and ending with the dry mixture. Stir in the vanilla
extract. Divide batter evenly among the prepared pans and bake in the center of
the preheated oven for twenty-five to thirty minutes or until a wooden pick
inserted in the center of the layers comes out clean. Cool layers in their pans
over a rack for ten minutes, then loosen and turn out layers directly onto
racks for cooling. Cool layers thoroughly before icing (recipe follows). Recipe
yields a nine-inch, three-layer cake.
For Southern Praline Icing:
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 cup Granulated Sugar
1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar, firmly packed
4 large eggs of yolk
1 large can (12 oz.) evaporated milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups chopped pecans
Directions:
Melt the butter or margarine in a
large saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat, then stir in Granulated
Sugar and Imperial Light Brown Sugar. (Sugars will not dissolve).
In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the evaporated milk until smooth,
then whisk this mixture into the saucepan with the sugar mixture. Return
saucepan to a medium heat setting and cook, whisking constantly, until mixture
is thick, shiny and caramel-like, about fifteen to twenty minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract and pecans.
Cool icing to a good spreading consistency (about thirty minutes), then spread
evenly between cooled cake layers and over the top and sides of the cake.
Recipe yields icing for a nine-inch, three-layer cake.
Serve and Enjoy!
Marian Holland shared Faron Keith LeMaire's photo.