San Antonio Pecan Cake Recipe
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
2 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
5 eggs, separated
3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup light cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups finely chopped pecans
Snowy White Glaze
Directions
1. Grease a 12-cup fluted tube pan. Dust with flour, tapping out excess.
2. Beat butter or margarine until fluffy in the large bowl of electric mixer at high speed; gradually add sugar. Beat until very light and fluffy.
3. Beat egg yolks until thick in a small bowl with a wire whip; fold into sugar mixture.
4. Sift flour, baking powder and salt onto wax paper; add to batter alternately with cream and vanilla. Mix well. Fold in pecans.
5. Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry, in a medium-size bowl with electric mixer at high speed; fold into batter. Turn into prepared pan.
6. Bake in slow oven (325°) 1 hour, 10 minutes, or until center springs back when pressed with fingertip.
7. Cool cake in pan on wire rack. Remove from pan. Spoon sugar glaze over top of cake. Decorate with additional pecan halves and can died cherries, if you wish.
2. Beat butter or margarine until fluffy in the large bowl of electric mixer at high speed; gradually add sugar. Beat until very light and fluffy.
3. Beat egg yolks until thick in a small bowl with a wire whip; fold into sugar mixture.
4. Sift flour, baking powder and salt onto wax paper; add to batter alternately with cream and vanilla. Mix well. Fold in pecans.
5. Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry, in a medium-size bowl with electric mixer at high speed; fold into batter. Turn into prepared pan.
6. Bake in slow oven (325°) 1 hour, 10 minutes, or until center springs back when pressed with fingertip.
7. Cool cake in pan on wire rack. Remove from pan. Spoon sugar glaze over top of cake. Decorate with additional pecan halves and can died cherries, if you wish.
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