This decadent Praline Pound Cake is so moist and flavorful, with brown sugar, pecans, and a scrumptious praline glaze.
For those who love pound desserts, be certain that so as to add this to your listing! It’s the excellent dessert it doesn’t matter what the season, however we particularly like it for fall and winter!
The right way to Make Praline Pound Cake
You’ll find the full, detailed recipe on the backside of this publish. Here’s a fast take a look at our steps for the cake!
At the moment’s recipe is just like our cream cheese pound cake recipe, however with brown sugar, pecans, and praline glaze.
- First, grease and flour a bundt pan or tube pan and preheat oven.
- We mixed the dry components (cake flour, salt, and baking powder) and put aside.
- Utilizing an electrical mixer, we then blended the softened butter and softened cream cheese on medium pace till easy. Subsequent, we added the brown sugar and blended for a couple of minutes till mild and fluffy.
- The eggs had been added one by one, mixing after every addition.
- We mixed our moist components subsequent, including vanilla to the ½ cup of milk.
- Lastly, with the mixer on low pace, alternately add the dry and moist components to the blending bowl, starting and ending with the dry components. (We did three additions of dry, two additions of moist). Combine simply till mixed to forestall over-mixing.
- Fold within the toasted pecans and pour batter into ready bundt pan.
- Bake at 325 levels F for about 60-70 minutes or till an inserted toothpick comes out clear or with just some crumbs hooked up.
Praline Glaze
The praline glaze is the proper complement to our pound cake. It’s buttery and candy, with great taste from brown sugar and pecans. The primary a part of the recipe entails getting ready a caramel sauce by heating brown sugar, butter, and milk in a saucepan.
Then, the powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and salt are added. Lastly, chopped pecans are folded in.
The glaze will thicken up a bit because it cools. As soon as the cake has cooled, you’ll be able to both spoon it over the cake, or apply it with a disposable piping bag. (In case your pecan items are on the bigger aspect, spooning the glaze over the cake is the most suitable choice.)
Extra Pound Desserts
We love pound cake recipes and have added to many to our recipes part through the years! A few of our favorites are our traditional pound cake recipe, buttermilk pound cake, 5 taste pound cake, and lemon pound cake, however now we have so many extra! Make certain to take a look at our pound desserts and bundt desserts part for a full itemizing.
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Grease and flour a bundt cake pan or tube pan. (We used a 15 cup bundt pan with a baking capability of 12 cups.)
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Preheat the oven to 325℉
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In a separate bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to mix, put aside for later.
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Utilizing an electrical mixer (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer), combine the butter and cream cheese on medium pace till easy.
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Subsequent, regularly add the brown sugar and beat till mild and fluffy for 3 minutes.
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Add the eggs to the blending bowl one by one, mixing after every till the yolk is integrated.
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Add the vanilla extract to the ½ cup of milk.
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With the mixer on low pace, add the flour combination alternately with the milk to the butter/sugar/egg combination within the mixing bowl. Start and finish with the dry components. I do three additions of dry components, alternating with two additions of moist.
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Gently fold/stir within the chopped pecans.
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Scoop batter into ready bundt pan.
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Bake at 325 levels for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clear. *Baking occasions might differ.
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This makes roughly 9.5 cups of batter.
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Enable to chill within the pan for 10 minutes earlier than turning out.
Praline Glaze
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Mix the brown sugar, butter, and milk in a medium saucepan. Prepare dinner over medium warmth to soften the butter, stirring consistently. Enhance the warmth to medium excessive and produce to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes whereas whisking.
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Subsequent, switch this caramel combination to a heatproof bowl and stir within the confections sugar, salt, and vanilla, stirring till easy. Stir within the chopped pecans. This combination will thicken because it cools. (If it turns into too agency earlier than you’ll be able to use it, warmth in small increments within the microwave or briefly in a saucepan till desired consistency is reached.
Adorning the Cake
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As soon as the cake has cooled, you’ll be able to spoon the glaze over the cake, or for extra management, you’ll be able to spoon it right into a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away. Nonetheless, in case your chopped pecans are pretty massive, spooning it over the cake is the most suitable choice as they might be too massive to move simply by the piping bag.
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After glazing, we added pecan halves across the high as a ultimate element.
Storing
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This cake is ok to depart at room temperature for a few days in an hermetic container or below a cake dome. After that, we like to maneuver to the fridge for freshness. For those who chill your cake, it’s best to maneuver it to the kitchen counter a few hours earlier than serving. It will permit loads of time for it to heat and soften.
If utilizing a smaller bundt pan, an excellent rule of thumb is to not fill it previous ⅔ full, to depart loads of room for the cake to rise.
This cake may be wrapped tightly in plastic wrap adopted by foil and frozen for as much as three months. To thaw, transfer to the fridge the day earlier than (nonetheless wrapped), after which to the kitchen counter the subsequent morning.