Wax Pecan Cake From Aunt Sharon Recipe 55

WAXIE PECAN BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Mix and sift dry ingredients.
• Beat egg whites with vanilla until stiff but not dry.
• Mix well with dry ingredients.
• Add pecans.
• Bake in Bundt pan for 1 hour at 325 degress.
• Mix all ingredients for icing and pour over cake.
• Bake 5 minutes more.

OLD SOUTHERN CHOCOLATE PECAN SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease bottom and sides of a 9x13-inch pan.
• Mix 2 cups white sugar, flour, and salt in a mixing bowl.
• Combine water, vegetable shortening, margarine, and 3 tablespoons cocoa powder in a saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently. Pour liquid into flour mixture and stir well. Return saucepan to stove and set it aside.
• Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk in a large liquid measuring cup and stir in eggs and vanilla extract. Pour egg mixture into cake batter and mix until fully combined. Transfer batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake the cake in preheated oven until cake springs back when touched lightly with a finger or a tester comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.
• While cake is baking, prepare icing using reserved saucepan. Combine confectioners' sugar, 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, butter, milk, vanilla, and pecans in saucepan. Cook and stir over medium heat until hot but not boiling. Pour icing over hot cake immediately after it comes out of the oven. Allow cake to cool completely on a wire rack.

WAX PECAN CAKE FROM AUNT SHARON RECIPE - (5/5)

Steps:

• Sift brown sugar and sift again with flour and baking powder. Add egg whites well beaten and mix together. Stir in vanilla and pecans. Pour into a foil lined loaf pan and bake in slow oven (325 degrees) for one hour, or until done. Makes one large loaf . The hardest part of making this cake is sifting the brown sugar, but it is worth the effort.