When a big cake is just too much cake this Pecan Pie Snack Cake is the perfect size! Packed full of pecans, it has a great flavor and so easy to make!
5 Ingredients, one bowl and you have yourself a tasty little snack cake. Perfect for a small family or three back to back DVR’d episodes of Downtown Abby! It is a dense cake and you will notice it uses no levelers like baking powder or baking soda.
This will make Mr. Laughing Spatula’s top ten – he loved this cake…. and I’ll tell you a little secret…it’s a muffin recipe that I turned into a cake! Why? Because I love cake! But, if you prefer a more portable cake, you can pour this batter into muffin tins and have Pecan Pie Muffins. Hows that for versatile?
You can turn this Pecan Pie Snack Cake recipe into 12 muffins…so versatile!
Actually, now that I think about it, you could probably turn any muffin recipe into a snack cake? Holy Cow, that just gets my food obsessed brain chugging along on a snowy sunday morning!
Love snack cake?….you might want to try Lemon Raspberry Snack Cake as well.
Ingredients
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 cup chopped pecans and several left whole for garnish
- 1/2 cup flour
- 2/3 cup melted butter
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cover 9 x 9 cake pan with non stick spray
- Mix all ingredients except whole pecans and pour into cake pan
- Top with whole pecans
- Bake for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean
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Elle says
Amazing!!! It’s like a pecan pie blondie 😊
Super simple to make and clean up from, and it’s DELICIOUS! Would probably be better with some caramel or whipped cream on it, too, though I haven’t tried that yet… (:
Kathi & Rachel says
Hi Elle – I love this recipe too! Thanks for the nice note!
Paula Terry says
If I wanted to make this in a 13 x 9 cake pan, would I double the recipe? How long to bake?
Kathi @ LaughingSpatula.com says
Hi Paula! You can double for a 9 x 13 and it will probably take about 60 minutes to bake….maybe a bit more. This is a dense cake and could take a bit longer. I have not tried it but all the foody sciency stuff says it should work!
Paula Terry says
Yay! Thank u
Kathi Kirk says
Thanks Tash! It’s a bit different…no levelers like baking soda or powder so it has a dense texture….alot like a Pecan Pie 🙂
Thanks for stopping by!
Kathi
Mila says
It looks good. Only one question, no baking powder, no soda? Thank you.
Kathi Kirk says
Hi Mila – that is correct, no baking powder or soda. It is a dense cake and resembles a pecan pie that way. It works, trust me…I made it 2 times last week for gifts for my doctors office and they loved it!
Kathi
Mila says
Thank you Kathi, definitely I try it :o))
Suzy says
This looks delish! 1/2 cup of flour seems like a very small amount. Is this why the lack of leavening ingredient works?
Kathi Kirk says
1/2 cup does seem like a small amount…in fact I kinda panicked when I saw your note and thought I messed up the recipe
! I double checked and 1/2 cup is correct whew! I’m no food scientist but I’m thinking the pecans make up for the missed flour. Hope you give it a try!
Suzy says
Sorry about the scare! I’m going to try out this Pecan Cake and your English Muffin Bread this week. Thanks for the recipes.
I’m glad to have found your sweet site (from a TasteSpotting.link).
Megan says
This will be very tastyl with a Darjeeling tea during Downton Abbey.
Kathi Kirk says
Hello Megan! Everything goes with Downton huh? Kathi