Recipe Box, Sweet Home Alabama Butter Pecan Coffee Cake
This is one of those
“Drop what you’re doing and make this now!” recipes
Seriously
It is worth every calorie…
Oh, and it’s dangerously easy to make too!
You might even have all the ingredients!
First saute your pecans in butter and brown sugar
These buttery pecans are wonderful in green salads,
mixed in with chicken salad or pimiento cheese,
or for just snacking 😋
Make the batter by mixing the eggs, brown sugar, white sugar, and oil
Then add flour and vanilla and stir in chopped pecans
Pour it into a greased 9″ x 13″ baking dish
Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes
Let cake cool for 10 minutes
While cake is cooling, make cream cheese icing
Beat cream cheese and butter together,
then add powdered sugar, vanilla and 3-4 Tablespoons of milk
Poke holes all over the top of cake and spread glaze over warm cake
Top with pecan halves
Let cake cool completely (if you can!) before serving
This recipe is adapted from Pinch of Yum and Divas Can Cook
Sweet Home Alabama Butter Pecan Coffeecake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 cup oil {vegetable or peanut}
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups self rising flour
- 2 tsp vanilla divided {I used butter vanilla}
- 1 cup Butter Pecans chopped
- 1 cup Butter Pecan halves for garnish
Butter Pecans
- 2 cups pecans
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
Cream Cheese Icing
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 4 Tbsp butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 3-4 Tbsp milk
Instructions
Butter Pecans
- Cook pecans in large skillet with butter and brown sugar, over medium heat.Â
- Stir constantly until pecans are well coated and just starting to brown.Â
- Season with salt and turn out onto a plate, wax paper or parchment paper to cool
Cake
- Combine sugars with oil and eggs, mixing well.
- Add flour and vanilla.
- Stir in chopped pecans.
- Transfer to a greased 9″x13″ baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes until set in the center
- Let cool 10 minutes. Poke holes all over the top of the cake. Spread top with icing and garnish with pecan halves.
Cream Cheese Icing
- Beat cream cheese and butter together.Â
- Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla adding 2-3 Tablespoons of milk.Â
- Beat until smooth, adding more milk until desired consistency is reached.
- Store cake covered in the refrigerator.
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Definitely a must-try recipe! Thank you.
It’s really good, I hope you like it as much as we do, thanks Ann!
First of all, I love the name of this cake! Jenna, this is a must make for me, my family loves pecans. Baking in a sheet cake does make for an easy cake. It looks like you can’t eat just one piece. I am so excited to try this one. Happy Wednesday!
Thank you Pam, I hope you love it!
Do you cook both the chopped pecans and the pecan halves in the butter and brown sugar?
yes!
Now this looks like my kind of cake!!! LOVE that it’s so simple and YES mam I will be making this. And hiding in a closet with my fork before my bunch sees it! Ha! Hugs and blessings, Cindy
Thanks Cindy, I couldn’t believe how easy it was and, omg the icing!! I hope your family enjoys it!
Holy guacamole! This looks and sounds amazing. The hubs loves pecans and butter and I love cake so… I’m adding this to the shopping list! Excited to try something new while we are “staying at home.”
Thanks Cindy, I hope you love it!!
Another winner! Will pin as I love pecans and will want to try this for sure! Thanks Jenna. 😋
Thank you Cyndi, I hope you love it as much as I do!
That cake looks and sounds so good Jenna! My daughter has made a few baking recipes she saw on tik tok. It’s the perfect time for baking.
Thanks for your blog visit today. Hope you have a nice week.
Thanks Julie, I love easy cakes!
That looks delicious! I love pecans and could really see myself cooking up extra pecans just so I had some left for my salads. Pinned
I try to keep these butter pecans on hand, they are great is so many things! Thanks and enjoy!
This looks like it would be terrific piece by piece — I could see using those pecans a lot of ways! It looks so good, so drop everything now and do it! This is going in the file!
Thanks Jeanie, it’s easy and delicious, the perfect combo!
I love pecans cooked into cakes. This sounds delicious!
Thanks, we thought it was really good!
LOOOOOKS SOOOOOO GOOOOOD!
I’ll be making this…!
It’s a keeper!!
Oh My ! this looks absolutely delicious and sinful. thank you for sharing
Thanks, it is one of my new favorites!
Saving this recipe Jenna. Who wouldn’t love this Sweet Home Alabama cake! Can’t wait to make it.
I hope you like it as much as I did Emily, and it’s so easy to make!
Sounds delicious and dangerous for sure Jenna! ♥
My new favorite!
That looks seriously devilish. pecans are so good. Thanks for sharing Jenna. Happy Mother’s Day.
It’s a new forbidden pleasure!
My husband’s eyes rolled back into his head! Thank you!
haha, yep!! Thanks Pat!!
Oh my goodness, Jenna, you know that I’ll be making this scrumptious looking cake!!! I do have everything to make it, too. I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day…xx
Thank you Kitty, this is my new favorite cake!!
How could anyone resist having a second helping of this delicious cake. Thanks Jenna!
This is my new favorite indulgence, again the picky little boys didn’t love it {no chocolate 😂} but my son and I did!
That means more for the two of you. 😊
This looks so yummy and moist. I really want to try this recipe. Thank you for sharing with #omhgww, be well.
Thanks Clearissa, it’s my new favorite!!
Boy, I would love this and because sharing is so hard right now, I’d eat far more than I should.
ha, this is dangerously good, I put half of it in the freezer for a future treat, thanks Linda
Your cake looks amazing. Congratulations, you are being featured at Over The Moon Linky Party.
I hope you stop by. https://www.eclecticredbarn.com/2020/05/over-moon-linky-party_17.html
Hugs,
Bev
wow, thank you Beverly!!
We sure have enjoyed featuring your awesome post at Full Plate Thursday,484. Hope you are having a great week and come back to see us real soon!
Miz Helen
thanks so much Miz Helen!
Printed it out because this sounds like my favorite thing to get from a bakery on the rare occasion I can find it.
Please try it, it’s easy to make and you can even freeze it! Thanks Jinjer!
I will! I will! I will!!! Jumping with joy and clapping hands.
ha ha, you’re too funny!