Brown Sugar Caramel Pound Cake

Pound cake is an old-fashioned recipe. After all, it’s easy to remember. You mix a pound of this, a pound of that… and end up with a tasty cake. But that’s not all you can do with the recipe. These ingredients create a cake which is a starting point for so many other variations.

Take this brown sugar caramel cake, for instance, and this is one of the sweetest and best cakes you’ve ever tried.

The toffee chips, caramel sauce and nuts team up with the moist, light-as-air cake to make it a truly impressive dessert. The pecans and toffee chips add jaw-droppingly flavorful texture to the cake. And the fact it stays moist for days means you don’t have to save the recipe for a special occasion when you’re expecting a crowd.

It’s made in a bundt pan, which is a circular pan with a central hole to promote even cooking and also give you a gorgeous-looking cake.

The cake features nuts and toffee chips and the creamy caramel sauce adds just the right topping to the cake.

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Why You’ll Love the Recipe

This easy cake is flavored with vanilla, toffee and pecans, and the caramel sauce boasts the rich flavors of brown sugar and vanilla. There is nothing not to love about this incredible cake and it’s just as good (or better!) than anything from the local bakery.

How to Serve It:

Enjoy this fantastic cake with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream or even a combination of both. You can also have it without such a garnish. It’s already pretty rich!

Can You Make It Ahead?

As the cake stays moist and tasty for several days, and is served cold, you can make it in advance if that suits you.

Ingredients:

For the cake:

• Butter
• Granulated sugar
• Brown sugar
• Eggs
• All-purpose flour
• Baking powder
• Vanilla extract
• Milk
• Toffee chips
• Pecans

For the caramel sauce:

• Sweetened condensed milk
• Brown sugar
• Butter unsalted
• Vanilla extract

How to make Brown Sugar Caramel Pound Cake:

Step 1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

Step 2. Add the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar to a mixing bowl and beat until fluffy and creamy.

Adding the granulated sugar.

Adding the brown sugar.

Step 3. Mix the eggs into the bowl one at a time until smooth.

Step 4. Place the flour, baking powder, milk, and vanilla extract in the bowl and beat until just combined.

Adding the flour.

Adding the baking powder.

Adding the milk.

Step 5. Fold the pecans and toffee chips into the batter.

Adding the pecans.

Adding the toffee chips.

Step 6. Grease the inside of a bundt pan and fill it with the batter. Smooth the top out and bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until cooked completely through.

Step 7. Remove the cake from the oven, turn it over, and allow to cool on a rack.

Step 8. When the cake has cooled, add the evaporated milk and brown sugar to a saucepan over medium-high heat on the stove.

Adding the brown sugar.

Bring the mixture just to a boil and then reduce to simmer for 8-10 minutes.

Step 9. Remove the mixture from the heat and stir in the butter and vanilla extract.

Step 10. Drizzle the sauce while still hot over the cooled cake and serve.

Serve warm!

Pound cake is always delicious but when you add brown sugar, caramel and pecans, you can be sure of an extra-special result. This recipe is easy to prepare, you can make it a few days ahead, and the flavor is simply gorgeous.

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Storage Instructions:

Wrap the cake in aluminum foil and keep it at room temperature for up to 3 days or refrigerated for up to a week. If you want to enjoy it warm, you can give it 20 seconds or so on a plate in the microwave (remove the foil first!)

Variations and Substitutions:

Although you can switch the brown sugar for white sugar, you aren’t going to end up with the same warm, earthy, rich caramel flavor if you do this. It’s recommended that you either use brown sugar or a brown sugar alternative such as “Swerve brown sugar” which is an artificial sweetener with all the flavor of brown sugar (minus the calories and carbs).

You can also switch the toffee chips for butterscotch or vanilla chips, or add a pinch of ground cinnamon to the batter. Oh, and you might also wish to add a handful of chopped nuts on top of the cake before baking.

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