Southern Sock It To Me Cake
This classic southern cake is way too delicious to pass up! Made completely from scratch with all natural ingredients, it's a sweet dessert.
Ingredients
Cake Batter
- 3 cups cake flour
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 3 sticks unsalted butter
- 7 medium eggs
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
Swirl
- 2 tbsp cake batter
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 3 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
Icing
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 1/2 tsp lemon juice or vanilla extract
Instructions
Cake Batter
- In a large mixing bowl combine the sugar and butter. Mix until it's nice and creamy.
- Next add in the eggs, and mix until everything is well incorporated.
- Pour in the vanilla extract, and continue to mix.
- Now start alternate adding in the cake flour, and heavy cream. Be sure to add a little bit of flour at a time!
Brown Sugar Batter
- Add two tbsp of the cake batter to a large mixing bowl.
- Next add in the brown sugar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, butter, and chopped pecans.
- Mix until well combined, then set to the side.
Assemble Cake
- Add half of the cake batter into a tube pan or bundt pan.
- Next, add the pecan & brown sugar mixing op top of the cake batter.
- Add the remaining cake batter on top of the pecan & brown sugar mixture.
- Bake the cake in a preheated oven on 350 F for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
- Remove the cake from the oven, and let cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
- After the 10 minutes, place the cake on a cooling rack, and let cool.
Icing
- Combine the powdered sugar, milk, and lemon juice, then mix until creamy.
- Drizzle the icing all over the cake ( once it's cool), and let sit for 10 minutes.
- Serve, and enjoy.