SOUTHERN PECAN PRALINE CAKE & ICING

INGREDIENTS:
Cake:

1 cup butter or margarine, softened

1-1/2 cups granulated sugar

1 cup light brown sugar, packed

4 large eggs

3 cups all-purpose flour

1-1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 cup milk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

Praline Icing:

3/4 cup butter or margarine

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed

4 large eggs yolks

1 can (12 oz.) evaporated milk

2 tsp. vanilla

2 cups chopped pecans

DIRECTIONS:


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 3 (9") cake pans

Cake: Cream butter with both sugars until very light and fluffy

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

Sift flour with baking powder, baking soda, salt

Add to batter alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry mixture.

Stir in vanilla extract.

Divide batter evenly among prepared pans; bake in center of oven 25 - 30 minutes,
or until a pick inserted in center of layers comes out clean.

Cool layers in pans over a rack 10 minutes, then loosen, turn out
layers onto racks for cooling. Cool layers thoroughly before icing.

Praline Icing: Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.

Remove from heat, then stir in sugars. (Sugars will not dissolve).

In a separate bowl, whisk egg yolks with evaporated milk until smooth

Whisk this mixture into saucepan with sugar mixture.

Return saucepan to a medium heat; cook, whisking constantly, until mixture is thick, shiny and caramel-like, 15 - 20 minutes.

Remove from heat, stir in vanilla and pecans.

Cool icing to good spreading consistency, about 30 minutes.

Spread, divided evenly between cooled cake layers, over top and sides of cake.

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