Spice Cake with Bourbon-Pecan Frosting
Spice Cake with Bourbon-Pecan Frosting requires around 2 hours from start to finish. For $1.25 per serving, you get a dessert that serves 8. One serving contains 1039 calories, 10g of protein, and 47g of fat. If you have milk, granulated sugar, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet.
Instructions
Butter two 9-by-2-inch round cake pans and line with parchment paper; butter and dust with flour. In a bowl, mix the 3 cups of flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves and salt. In a cup, mix the milk with the vanilla.
In a standing mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the butter at medium speed until light and creamy.
Add the sugar and beat until fluffy, 4 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, scraping down the bowl. Beat in the dry ingredients in 3 batches, alternating with the milk mixture and scraping down the bowl.
Scrape the batter into the pans.
Bake in the lower third of the oven for about 35 minutes, until springy.
Let cool for 15 minutes, then run a knife around the edges and invert onto a rack. Peel off the paper, turn the cakes upright and cool completely.
In a standing mixer fitted with the whisk, beat the butter and egg yolk at medium-high speed until creamy. Beat in the sugar at low speed. Beat in the cream, vanilla and salt, then beat at medium-high speed until fluffy, 3 minutes longer. Beat the bourbon and toasted pecans into the frosting.
Spread 1 cup of frosting over a cake layer and top with the second layer; frost the top and sides.