Description
This Easy Southern Praline Pecan Cake with Butter Sauce is a decadent and moist yellow cake studded with crunchy chopped pecans, topped with a rich, buttery pecan sauce made from sweetened condensed milk. Perfectly baked to golden perfection and drizzled with a luscious butter pecan sauce, this dessert is a classic Southern treat that’s ideal for gatherings or an indulgent everyday treat.
Ingredients
Scale
Cake Mix
- 15.25 ounces Duncan Hines Classic Yellow Cake Mix
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 4 tablespoons melted butter
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons heavy cream
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
Pecan Butter Sauce
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat and prepare pan: Preheat the oven to 350°F and grease a 13-inch by 9-inch baking dish to prevent the cake from sticking.
- Mix cake batter: In a large bowl, combine the yellow cake mix, vegetable oil, sour cream, melted butter, brown sugar, heavy cream, and eggs. Mix thoroughly until well incorporated.
- Add pecans to batter: Fold in the chopped pecans gently, ensuring they are evenly distributed throughout the batter.
- Bake the cake: Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish and bake for 30 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Make the butter pecan sauce: While the cake bakes, melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Once melted, add the sweetened condensed milk and stir continuously until the mixture is hot but not boiling.
- Add pecans to sauce: Stir in the chopped pecans into the hot butter-sweetened condensed milk mixture.
- Serve: Pour the warm butter pecan sauce over slices of the cake or the entire cake just before serving.
Notes
- Use a glass measuring cup for the butter sauce to pour more easily over the cake slices.
- Stir the butter sauce often while heating as pecans tend to float, preventing concentrated nut topping in one spot.
- If low heat doesn’t warm the sauce enough, increase to medium but watch closely to prevent burning.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice (approx. 1/18th of cake)
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 28g
- Sodium: 220mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8g
- Trans Fat: 0.5g
- Carbohydrates: 40g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 5g
- Cholesterol: 70mg
