This Pecan Pound Cake with Praline Sauce is one of the best pound cakes you will ever eat.
PECAN POUND CAKE WITH fantastic PRALINE SAUCE
My family’s favorite cake is Caleb’s Comfort Pound Cake. Caleb is my special needs son. I started baking with him before he could walk. Baking was a fun activity to help Caleb with his memory. He is now 17 years old, and he has baked a lot of pound cakes. Recently, we were planning on baking a pound cake. Caleb’s twin brother Casey asked if I could put pecans in it and fix my praline sauce to put on top of the cake. It sounded great, and I could not believe we had never tried it. Casey’s Pecan Pound Cake with Praline Sauce turns out so delicious.
What Is In This Pecan Pound Cake?
I often get asked, “What is the secret to your pound cake”? We have been baking pound cakes over 15 years and finally arrived at this super moist and delicious pound cake. Some people use sour cream, buttermilk, butter, and shortening. I use a combination of all of these products. This cake is always super moist and does not need a topping, but this praline sauce is Outstanding. It is perfect on this Pecan Pound Cake, Caleb’s Pound Cake, Pumpkin Bread, or ice cream.
Praline Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup heavy cream or half and half
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Bring butter, brown sugar and heavy cream to a boil in a heavy saucepan.
- Stir constantly for one minute.
- Remove from stove and stir in pecans and vanilla.
Nutrition
Praline Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter 2 sticks, softened
- ½ cup butter flavoring shortening.
- 3 cups of sugar
- 5 eggs
- ¾ cup sour cream
- 1 tablespoon butter flavoring
- 2 TB pure vanilla extract.
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- 1 cup pecans chopped
Instructions
- With an electric mixer, cream together 1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened and ½ cup butter flavoring shortening.
- Add 3 cups of sugar to the creamed butter and shortening. This is an important step. Cream these ingredients for 3 to 5 minutes until it is nice and fluffy. See Picture.
- Add five eggs one at a time just until the egg yolks disappear. About 1 to 2 minutes.
- Blend in a ¾ cup of sour cream.
- Add 1 TB butter flavoring (or lemon or almond) and 2 TB pure vanilla extract.
- Next, add one teaspoon salt and one teaspoon baking powder to the mixture.
- Alternate the 3 cups all-purpose flour with ¾ cup buttermilk just until blended.
- Fold in the chopped pecans.
- Preheat oven 325 degrees
- Bake 325 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Allow the cake to cool completely about 20 to 30 minutes.
Notes
Nutrition
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I would love to have the recipe for the Pecan Pound Cake with Praline Sauce recipe. I could not bring it up on my computer. Could you please send it to me?
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
Janet,
Thank you for stopping by Recipes for our Daily Bread to see my Pecan Pound Cake with Praline Sauce. It is by far one of my favorite cakes. Here is a direct link to the recipe. https://recipesforourdailybread.com/pecan-pound-cake-praline-sauce/2/
When you are on my blog, click the ARROWS at the top or bottom of each post for the second page where you can find the recipe.
MANY MANY BLESSINGS, DIANE
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Hi Diane,
This gorgeous cake is featured today in my new roundup “10 Cakes That Could Win A Beauty Contest”. What a work of art!
Sinea from Ducks n a Row
This cake looks scrumptious, but when I save it to my ZipList Recipe Box, the picture does not come up with it. Can you fix that so those of us that are using ZipList can show the picture in our recipe box?
Thanks..
This Pecan Pound Cake with Praline sauce is truly moist and delicious. Thanks you so much for stopping by and leaving me a comment.
Blessings,
Diane Roark
This cake look delicious and I want to make it for my husband. I notice in the picture the sauce is on the side. Is there any reason I couldn’t pour it over the cake? Thanks!
Shawnnetta,
This cake is truly delicious. This praline sauce is too. I like to heat the sauce up and add it hot on each piece of cake, but I do not see any reason why you could not just add the sauce to the whole cake.
I hope this helps and you get a chance to try this cake.
Blessings,
Diane Roark
This looks heavenly! Love pecans and who doesn’t love cake.
I’m visiting from UBP#14.
I’ve been on your site before, but not sure I’ve ever commented.
Have a “delicious” day,
Gail (Bible Love Notes)
P.S. I’ll be pinning this later : )
Gail,
Thank you so much for stopping by. I am loving UBP#14, especially the huge list of bloggers who are Christians. I will make sure I am following all your social medias.
Blessings,
Diane Roark
I love praline sauce
I know you do!
Love you,
Diane
Hi Diane, this sounds like a winner. We have a Sunday School Social once a month.
I will be trying this real soon! You know what southerners like!!
I enjoy your blog recipes and pictures. Keep up the good work.
Beverly,
I hope you enjoy this Pecan Pound Cake with Praline Sauce at your Sunday School Social. Let me know what you think.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Thank you for visiting and supporting me.
Blessings,
Diane Roark
Posts I added to my blog recently.
https://recipesforourdailybread.com/2014/03/13/crock-pot-lemon-pudding-cake/
https://recipesforourdailybread.com/2014/03/11/easy-greek-chicken-breast-over-pasta-2/
Hi Diane, This sounds like a winner! We have a Sunday School social once a month and I will be trying this sometime soon. You know how southerners think!!!
Beverly,
I forgot to mention that I do know how southerners think. Food is just meant to be with any gathering. I grew up in Mobile, Alabama but I have live in Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, and now Arkansas for the past 5 years.
Love the South and Southerners,
Diane Roark
I wrote about the South here: https://recipesforourdailybread.com/2011/12/30/best-things-about-the-south/
This looks and sounds so wonderful.
Teresa,
Thank you so much. This cake is really moist and delicious. The Praline Sauce is soooo good. We eat it on ice cream too.
I hope you are doing well. I pray God is blessings you and your great blog. I will visit soon.
Blessings,
Diane Roark
Oh My !! I just found it with the Pumpkin Bread…..Opps should have looked around more before posting. I love your site and these fantastic recipes 😉
Loretta,
I cannot believe I did not also add the praline sauce recipe to this Pecan Pound Cake recipe. I am adding it now. I just forgot. I am glad you found it on my pumpkin patch post.
Please let me know how your cake turns out. My kids are begging me to bake it again. They have been out of school the past two days for ice. I think one cake a week is plenty.
If you do not already already follow my blog, I would love for you to. I am currently giving away a Gooseberry cookbook. https://recipesforourdailybread.com/2014/02/25/gooseberry-cookbook-giveaway-3-recipe-reviews/
Blessings,
Diane Roark
I’m making the Pound Cake now, BUT Where is the Praline Sauce recipe ???? Gotta have it, looks wonderful.
Looks so delicious and I love praline sauce here, so will need to try, because pound cake is easy enough to make and then a simple praline sauce on top sounds perfect! Thanks Diane and Happy Tuesday now!! 🙂
Janine,
This pound cake is super soft. I took ingredients over the years from all my favorite recipes to make this super moist and delicious pound cake. The praline sauce is wonderful on it.
I hope you are having a wonderful week.
Blessings,
Diane Roark