- 1/4 cup 55g brown sugar
- 1 T. 15g Korintje cinnamon
Icing:
- 3/4 cup 85g powdered sugar
- 1 T. 14g butter
- 1 inch piece of vanilla bean
- 4 T. 60ml heavy whipping cream
Glaze:
- 3 T. 45g butter, unsalted
- 3/4 cup 165g brown sugar
- 3/4 cup 180ml heavy whipping cream
- 2 inch piece of vanilla bean
- Pinch of salt
- 1 cup 130g chopped pecans, toasted
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray a bundt pan with Pam baking spray.
- Cream 3 sticks of room temperature softened butter in your mixing bowl and begin adding the sugar in a gradual stream until the entire mixture becomes creamy.
- Then add 6 room temperature eggs one at a time just until the yellow disappears.
- Add 3 cups of sifted cake flour and 1 cup of heavy whipping cream alternatively starting and ending with the flour. Add vanilla seeds scraped from a 2 inch piece of vanilla bean along with 1/2 tsp. of Korintje cinnamon.
- Then fold in 1 cup of toasted, chopped pecans. For the filling, mix 1/4 c. brown sugar and 1 T. Korintje cinnamon.
- Pour half of the batter into prepared bundt pan and layer filling mixture on top of the batter. Pour remaining batter over the filling.
- Bake in 325 degree oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until inserted toothpick come out clean. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes on wire rack then remove from the pan immediately to continue cooling.
- While your cake is baking, make the icing and the glaze. For the icing, melt 1 T. butter and add 3/4 c. of powdered sugar, the vanilla seeds scraped from a 1 inch piece of vanilla bean and 4 T. of whipping cream.
- Add more whipping cream if necessary to get that pourable consistency.
- For the glaze, melt 3 T. of unsalted butter, add 3/4 c. brown sugar, 3/4 c. heavy whipping cream, vanilla seeds scraped from a 2 inch piece of vanilla bean, and a pinch of salt .
- Bring to a boil while constantly stirring until it thickens for several minutes.
- Remove from the heat and add 1 c. of toasted, chopped pecans.
- Once the cake has cooled completely, pour the icing over it and then finish it with the caramel pecan glaze. Say Grace and enjoy!
