Pecan Pie Cake

As we all pretty well seem to know, this year has been the year of cakes. I stumbled across this cake a while back and thought, Perfect for Thanksgiving! In fact, I debated making this for Hubby’s birthday cake since I knew he wasn’t going to be home. But then he was going to be home. In the end, he wasn’t home. Then I made a cake he would like just in case. Heck, we were eating it without him and he can’t have nuts so…

So one of the ladies my mom works with asked me to make a cake. It was going to be one she’d had I’d made before… a Pumpkin Spice Latte Layer Cake. Somehow with some convincing, I conned (haha) her into this one instead. She decided that yes, we’d do this one because the other flavor was more for her taste and this would be more for her whole family. My only request was I had to know how it was because I wasn’t going to get to try a bite. I hear it was excellent! I don’t know. I’ll probably have to make it sometime so I can try it! I like Pecan Pie.

Pecan Pie Cake

Unlike most of the cakes here lately 2 things… 1. I didn’t pull from here and there to do exactly what I wanted. I followed the recipe to a T. 2. It was only 2 layers high, not 3 or 4. The cake itself was made with brown sugar instead of regular sugar. It gave it a more molassessy feel/taste. Yup, totally made up that word. But as you know, brown sugar has molasses in it if you have to make it yourself.

This cake used that good ol’ Swiss Meringue Buttercream, but instead of regular sugar, it was… you guessed it… Brown Sugar.

At first, I thought it was going to be short. I was quite worried it was going to look short. In fact, I almost debated making another 2 layers, etc… but I held out hope that it would be beautiful. p.s. I think it was.

Decorating

After I did the crumb coat and placed it in the fridge, then it was time to decorate it for realls y’all. I can’t recall a time I’ve actually used that phrase but let’s just roll with it. So, it was very simple. You ice the cake smooth. You find pretty whole half pieces of pecans… whole half? Just go with it again because they are half pieces but you wanted that half piece to be a whole half piece, not broken! You line them around the bottom and bam!….

The cake actually looks taller than just a little ol’ two layer cake. It’s that optical illusion!

Finally, there is pecan pie filling in between the cake layers but also on top. This is how you know what’s inside because it is presented on the top. Finally, you can line it with more whole half pecans and use some of that leftover Brown Sugar Swiss Meringue Buttercream to pipe a border around the top to make it look gorgeous! And there my friends is a Gorgeous Cake.

If you want the full recipe, go check out Liv for Cake. She’s got you covered because like I said, I didn’t stray from her recipe.