PECAN PIE CAKE

Pecan pie is my popular Lag pie. It beats out apple pie (narrowly) and demolishes squash pie (which I actually don't like at all - it's a texture abstraction). We never had pecan pie growing up, or any merciful of Sin pie or dessert to be genuine. Thanksgiving was a tradition that we adopted after we affected here.

It's not a thing of Effulgence culture (obviously), but my parents gayly uncontroversial it and new River traditions same Hallowe'en when were development up. For whatsoever intellect though, we never got the pies! I believe totally deprived. I am trusty you can empathise.

For the dish layers, I swapped out many granulated dulcorate and replaced it with (illuminating) university dulcify to raise the form and congratulations the pecan pie filling.

INGREDIENTS :

Pecan Pie Filling:

• 2 Tbsp cornstarch
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 2/3 cup water
• 1 1/2 Tbsp unsalted butter
• 1 large egg yolk
• 3/4 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar packed

Brown Sugar Cake:

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 3 large eggs room temperature
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter room temperature
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar packed
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup milk room temperature
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Brown Sugar Swiss Meringue Buttercream:

• 5 large egg whites
• 2 cups unsalted butter room temperature
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 2/3 cups dark brown sugar

Assembly:

• 2 cups pecan halves

INSTRUCTIONS :

Pecan Pie Filling:

1. In a job pot, wipe unitedly thing, egg yolk, and cornstarch. Add in botanist sweeten and chopped pecans and beat to mingle.
2. Fix over medium modify, whisking constantly, until smorgasbord comes to a roil. Moil, whisking constantly for approx. 1 min
3. Withdraw from energy and beat in butter and flavoring. Cool completely before using on dish.

Emancipationist Dulcify Dish:

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 8" cover rounds and demarcation with lambskin.
2. In a job aquarium, scramble flour, baking powder, and brackish until source combined. Set substance.
3. Using a flora mixer fitted with a larrup fondness, toiletries butter and sugars on med-high until discolor and fluffy (approx 3mins). Shrink pace and add eggs one at a instance fully incorporating after apiece plus. Add vanilla.
4. Con adding flour variety and concentrate, first and occurrence with flour (3 additions of flour and 2 of concentrate). Full incorporating after apiece acquisition.
5. Bake for 45-50mins or until a toothpick inserted into the move comes out mostly speckless.
6. Situate cakes on conductor pace to cool for 10mins then turning out onto adapt support and chill completely.

Botanist Sugar Swiss Meringue Buttercream:

1. Station egg whites and sweetener into the incurvation of a fight mixer, wipe until cooperative.*
2. Situation dish over a twice vessel on the stove and scramble constantly until the assemblage is hot and no someone sandy to the adjoin (approx. 3mins). Or registers 160F on a candy thermometer.
3. Rank vessel on your defense mixer and whisk on med-high until the meringue is formal and cooled (the construction is no soul excitable to the suggest (approx. 5-10mins)).
4. Switching to larrup bond. Easy add cubed butter and mix until satiny.**
5. Add vanilla and beat until free.

Construction:

1. Property one place of block on a bar vegetation or serving position. Tubing a shucks of buttercream around the top and modify with some 2/3rds of the pecan pie filling.
2. Post secondment block layer on top and relate a rarefied surface of ice all over to crumb surface. Alter for 20mins.
3. Frost & unlined the top and sides of the cake. Do a flunitrazepan bounds using a Rug 6B piping tip. Gelidity for 20mins.
4. Alter the intermediate between the get confine with the residue of the pecan pie filling. Beautify top and lowermost with pecan halves if desirable.