Ingredients
- ■2 stick unsalted butter, melted and divided
- ■3/4 cup of brown sugar
- ■3/4 cup pecan halves
- ■1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
- ■1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ■1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ■1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- ■1/2 teaspoon salt
- ■1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- ■1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- ■1 cups sugar
- ■2 large eggs
- ■1 cup homemade Pumpkin Puree Pumpkin Puree, or canned
- ■1/2 cup warm (110 degrees) milk
Preparation
Step 1
Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Spread pecan halves on a baking sheet and toast for 5 minutes or until aromatic. Remove from the oven and let cool, chop the pecans into small pieces, set aside.
Melt butter in a small sauce pan. In a 9-by-2-inch round cake pan combine melted butter and brown sugar.
In a large bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, salt, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, eggs, vanilla extract and pumpkin puree together until well combined, about 2 minutes. Add flour mixture; stir with spoon until just combined.
Pour batter into prepared pan, and bake until a cake tester inserted into the middle comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Transfer the cake to a wire rack to cool. Let cake rest 5 minutes.
Place a plate over the cake and invert to unmold cake, let cool completely.