Spread remaining frosting over top and sides of cake.
Yellow cake with caramel icing recipe.
It creates the best caramel cake recipe.
Saucepan combine all ingredients.
Let cake layers cool for 10 min.
Add remaining ingredients except caramel and mix on low speed for 1 minute then on medium for 4 minutes.
Place 1 cake layer on a plate.
Butter will become very pale creamy.
Cream sugar butter and crisco.
Stir together 1 tbsp.
Add baking powder and salt to mixture alternately with milk.
Spread with 1 2 cup caramel pecan frosting and top with remaining layer.
For easy caramel icing.
I made this cake recently and went crazy over the salted caramel frosting.
Add milk and bring to a boil over medium high.
Frosting will be very light creamy and fluffy.
Sprinkle 1 3 cup sugar in a shallow heavy 3 qt.
Southern caramel cake with homemade caramel icing from butter sugar and milk.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment whip butter for 8 minutes.
The classic southern caramel cake doesn t shortcut the caramel icing recipe with a quick brown sugar butterscotch method which is a caramel frosting substitution.
For the icing 3 4 cup salted butter 1 and 1 2 sticks 3 and 1 2 cup brown sugar 1 2 cup plus 1 3 cup evaporated milk or heavy cream 1 4 teaspoon salt 1 and 1 2 teaspoons vanilla.
Frost cake with caramel icing garnish with pecan halves and grated orange peel if desired.
Cook over medium heat stirring constantly 3 minutes.
Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
1 16 ounce package brown sugar 1 cup butter 1 4 teaspoon salt 2 3 cup evaporated milk 1 16 ounce package confectioners sugar sifted 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract add all ingredients to list.
Pour into greased tube pan and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
A classic favorite southern caramel cake is just a regular yellow cake frosted with a sweet caramel cake icing some folks like to drizzle the caramel icing in between the layers and just let it drip from the top down the sides and others like to make a thicker caramel cake.
Classic yellow cake with caramel frosting 1.
This one tastes just like grandma s.
Invert onto cooling racks and let cool completely.
The classic caramel cake recipe has a moist yet slightly dense but still light yellow butter cake that isn t too sweet because the caramel icing is the true star of the party.
To make the salted caramel frosting you use butter dark brown sugar heavy cream powdered sugar and sea salt.
In a 3 qt.
Store cake loosely covered in refrigerator.