Texas Praline Cake

Name: Texas Praline Cake
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 5 teaspoons baking powder; 237 milliliters brown sugar; 237 milliliters butter or margarine; 4 eggs; 946 milliliters all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters heavy cream, chilled; 1 Tbsp instant coffee granules; 10 pecan halves (optional); 237 milliliters coarsely chopped pecans; 0 teaspoons salt; 1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 355 milliliters water; 118 milliliters white sugar

Texas Praline Cake requires approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes from start to finish. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 9g of protein, 38g of fat, and a total of 658 calories. This recipe serves 10. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. Head to the store and pick up sugar, brown sugar, butter, and a few other things to make it today. It works well as an inexpensive dessert.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease just the bottom of a 10 inch tube pan.

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In a large bowl, cream together the butter, 1 cup brown sugar and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. Stir in vanilla. Dissolve the coffee crystals in water, and stir into the creamed mixture until blended. Stir together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; stir into the batter until just incorporated. Fold in pecans.

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Baking Powder

Brown Sugar

Granulated Sugar

Vanilla

Butter

Coffee

Pecans

Cocoa Powder

Cream

All Purpose Flour

Water

Egg

Salt

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Transfer the batter to the prepared pan.

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Bake for about 55 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack.

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Toothpicks

Wire Rack

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Frying Pan

In a chilled bowl, stir together the heavy cream, salt, vanilla and remaining 1/2 cup brown sugar so that the sugar is dissolved. Whip using chilled beaters until stiff. Run a knife around the outer edge of the cake in the pan, and tap it out onto a serving plate. Make sure cake is completely cool before frosting. Decorate with pecan halves if you like.

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Pecan Halves

Brown Sugar

Heavy Cream

Frosting