Spiced Pecan Cake with Mascarpone Cream Cheese Frosting

Name: Spiced Pecan Cake with Mascarpone Cream Cheese Frosting
Yield: Serves 10 to 12
Ingredients: 4 egg whites; 1 tablespoon vanilla extract; 1½ cups milk; 1½ teaspoons salt; 3 tablespoons baking powder; 2¼ cups all-purpose flour; 2¼ cups cake flour; 2½ cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar; 8 ounces (2 sticks) soft sweet butter; 4½ cups Candied Pecans

Preparation info

Serves
10 to 12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Stars Desserts

By Emily Luchetti

Published 1993

About

One morning at Stars we discovered some leftover fabulous spiced pecans from a banquet menu the night before. We came up with this traditional layer cake to use them.

Ingredients

Spiced Pecan Cake

4½ cups Candied Pecans
8 ounces (2 sticks)

Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian
Spicy

Method

To make the cake

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

Line the bottoms of the cake pans with parchment paper.

Put 3 cups of the candied pecans