Best Rich Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Cake Recipes

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OLD SOUTHERN CHOCOLATE PECAN SHEET CAKE



Old Southern Chocolate Pecan Sheet Cake image

I received this recipe from an old Southern cook, a copy of a copy of a typed-up sheet from long ago, annotated with her notes (which included the word oleo instead of margarine). I've never seen another chocolate cake recipe like it, which instructs the cook to heat part of the cake batter on the stove, and pour the cooked icing over a hot cake. The result is a wonderfully rich (yet surprisingly light) chocolate sheet cake topped with a cooked chocolate and pecan frosting. This cake has an incredible homemade taste, yet is foolproof! Will make you forget Duncan Hines®!

Provided by Leslie41

Categories     Desserts     Nut Dessert Recipes     Pecan Dessert Recipes

Time 55m

Yield 24

Number Of Ingredients 17

2 cups white sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup water
½ cup vegetable shortening
½ cup margarine
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ cup buttermilk
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (16 ounce) box confectioners' sugar
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
½ cup butter
6 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease bottom and sides of a 9x13-inch pan.
  • Mix 2 cups white sugar, flour, and salt in a mixing bowl.
  • Combine water, vegetable shortening, margarine, and 3 tablespoons cocoa powder in a saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently. Pour liquid into flour mixture and stir well. Return saucepan to stove and set it aside.
  • Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk in a large liquid measuring cup and stir in eggs and vanilla extract. Pour egg mixture into cake batter and mix until fully combined. Transfer batter into the prepared pan.
  • Bake the cake in preheated oven until cake springs back when touched lightly with a finger or a tester comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.
  • While cake is baking, prepare icing using reserved saucepan. Combine confectioners' sugar, 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, butter, milk, vanilla, and pecans in saucepan. Cook and stir over medium heat until hot but not boiling. Pour icing over hot cake immediately after it comes out of the oven. Allow cake to cool completely on a wire rack.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 324.8 calories, Carbohydrate 45.1 g, Cholesterol 24.3 mg, Fat 15.9 g, Fiber 1.2 g, Protein 2.6 g, SaturatedFat 4.7 g, Sodium 185 mg, Sugar 35.7 g

CHOCOLATE PECAN LAYER CAKE



Chocolate Pecan Layer Cake image

Categories     Cake     Chocolate     Dairy     Egg     Nut     Dessert     Bake     Pecan     Party     Bon Appétit

Yield Serves 12

Number Of Ingredients 19

CAKE
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
6 large egg yolks
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup cake flour
1 1/2 cups pecans, toasted, finely chopped
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, grated
8 large egg whites
GLAZE
5 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
FILLING
1 cup chilled whipping cream
3 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons bourbon
12 pecan halves

Steps:

  • FOR CAKE:
  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter bottom of 9-inch-diameter springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides. Line pan bottom with parchment.
  • Using electric mixer, beat butter in medium bowl until light. Add 1/2 cup sugar; beat until fluffy. Add yolks 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Mix in vanilla. Add flour, mix just until blended. Mix in pecans and chocolate. Using electric mixer fitted with clean dry beaters, beat egg whites in large bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1/2 cup sugar; beat until stiff but not dry. Fold whites into yolk mixture in 3 additions.
  • Transfer batter to pan. Bake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Cool on rack 15 minutes. Run knife around sides of pan to loosen. Release pan sides. Cool.
  • FOR GLAZE:
  • Combine all ingredients in top of double boiler set over simmering water (do not allow pan to touch water). Stir until smooth. Cool until lukewarm but still pourable, about 45 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare filling.
  • FOR FILLING:
  • Combine cream, sugar and bourbon in medium bowl; beat until stiff peaks form.
  • Using serrated knife, cut cake into 3 layers. Place bottom layer on plate. Spread half of cream filling over. Top with second layer. Spread remaining filling over. Top with remaining layer, cut side down. Slowly pour glaze over cake, allowing some to drip down sides of cake. Garnish cake with pecan halves. Chill until glaze sets, about 30 minutes.

BOURBON PECAN CAKE



Bourbon Pecan Cake image

Provided by Damaris Phillips

Categories     dessert

Time 1h50m

Yield 8 to 12 servings

Number Of Ingredients 16

2 2/3 cups cake flour
2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup bourbon
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter
1/2 cup coconut oil
2 cups granulated sugar
4 eggs, separated
3/4 cup pecans, chopped and toasted
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon bourbon
1/4 cup pecans, chopped and toasted

Steps:

  • For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. Combine the bourbon, milk and vanilla in a separate bowl (it may get clumpy looking--that's ok) and set aside.
  • In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and coconut oil until fluffy, about 1 minute. Add 1 3/4 cups of the granulated sugar and beat until fluffy, about 1 more minute. Add the egg yolks one at a time, mixing well between additions. Add the dry ingredients in four batches, alternating with the wet mixture, starting and ending with the dry. Stir in the pecans.
  • In a stand mixer with a whisk attachment and a clean bowl, whip the egg whites with the cream of tartar on medium until soft peaks form. Sprinkle in the remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar and whip to stiff peaks, about 5 minutes total. Fold the egg whites into the batter in thirds.
  • Pour into a bundt pan and bake until a cake tester comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes. Let cool before turning the cake out of the pan.
  • For the glaze: In a medium bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, bourbon and 2 tablespoons water. Once the cake is cool, top it with the glaze and sprinkle with the chopped pecans.

RICH CHOCOLATE-BOURBON PECAN CAKE



Rich Chocolate-Bourbon Pecan Cake image

I found this recipe in a Special Edition Southern Living Christmas Cookbook. I've tweaked it a little using dark cocoa and I added chocolate chips to the frosting for a richer cake and frosting. This cake is moist, rich in chocolate and has a very smooth flavor of bourbon. We presented this cake to a friend who visited us this...

Provided by Diane Atherton

Categories     Cakes

Time 1h20m

Number Of Ingredients 21

3 c all purpose flour, sifted
2 1/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 c boiling water
1 1/4 c dark cocoa, unsweetened
3/4 c milk
1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 c unsalted butter, room temperature
3 c brown sugar, firmly packed
6 large eggs, room temperature
1/2 to 3/4 c bourbon, optional
FROSTING AND FILLING
1 c butter, room temperature
2 (16-oz) packages powdered sugar
1/2 c heavy whipping cream (may need more)
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 c pecans, chopped
2 Tbsp heavy whipping cream
1/2 c dark cocoa, unsweetened
1 c semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
additional chopped pecan for garnish if desired

Steps:

  • 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 9-inch cake pans. NOTE: My pans were 2-inches deep. The cake rose very slightly over this level. No batter spilled over in the oven but I did cut a few little crusty pieces from the rim of the cake pans. And I enjoyed the little treat as well.
  • 2. Sift flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
  • 3. Pour boiling water over cocoa; whisk until smooth. Add milk and vanilla; whisk to combine.
  • 4. At a medium speed on electic mixer in a large bowl; beat butter until creamy. Gradually add brown sugar beat about 3 minutes until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
  • 5. Reduce speed on mixer to low. Add dry ingredients alternately with cocoa mixture beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
  • 6. Pour batter evenly into prepared pans; bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool in pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pans and cool completely on wire racks for about 1 hour. NOTE: When cooling this cake I made the mistake of flipping one layer top side down on the rack. This layer wanted to crumble a little because it stuck to the wire rack while the other layer I flipped bottom side down did perfect. Take a few seconds to flip the layers so that they are bottom side down on the wire racks.
  • 7. Next you will split the layers so that you will have 4 layers. I know of 2 ways of accomplishing this: 1. Use a Cake Slicer/Leveler to slice each layer in half horizontally. This is the method I used. OR 2. Once layers have cooled completely; wrap and freeze each layer for about 1 hour. Using a serrated knife, slice cake layers in half horizontally.
  • 8. Brush both sides of each of the 4 layers with bourbon. Place 1st layer on plate; spread pecan frosting between each of 3 layers. Do not spread on top of the 4th layer. Spread top and sides with chocolate frosting. Garnish if desired with more chopped pecans. For best flavor, allow cake to set for 24 hours at room temperature.
  • 9. FROSTING AND FILLING: You will be splitting this frosting in half. You will add pecans to one half for the filling and cocoa to the other half for the outer frosting.
  • 10. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy, reduce speed to low and add 2 cups of the powdered sugar, beating until well blended. Add 1/2 cup cream and the vanilla; beat until blended.
  • 11. Gradually add remaining sugar, beating until smooth. Remove 1/2 of this mixture to another bowl. To one bowl stir in the nuts and 1 Tbsp of cream. This bowl is your filling. To the other bowl add the cocoa, the remaining 1 Tbsp cream and the melted chocolate chips; beat until well blended. This bowl is your frosting.
  • 12. NOTES: If frosting mixture seems too dry add a little more cream, if too wet; add a little more powdered sugar. I find when spreading frosting or filling that if you dip the spatula in water before spreading either the frosting or filling it will spread easier without lifting the cake crumbs.

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