Ingredients 1 teaspoon vanilla extract icing.
Yellow cake with caramel icing recipe.
Spread with 1 2 cup caramel pecan frosting and top with remaining layer.
Southern caramel cake with homemade caramel icing from butter sugar and milk.
Flour and 2 cups sugar in a large saucepan.
Add baking powder and salt to mixture alternately with milk.
It creates the best caramel cake recipe.
Butter will become very pale creamy.
In a 3 qt.
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.
I made this cake recently and went crazy over the salted caramel frosting.
Let cake layers cool for 10 min.
This one tastes just like grandma s.
Classic yellow cake with caramel frosting 1.
To make the salted caramel frosting you use butter dark brown sugar heavy cream powdered sugar and sea salt.
Invert onto cooling racks and let cool completely.
Pour into greased tube pan and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
It is sweet yet salty and pairs perfectly with this moist and fluffy yellow cake.
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.
Store cake loosely covered in refrigerator.
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.
Add milk and bring to a boil over medium high.
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.
Sprinkle 1 3 cup sugar in a shallow heavy 3 qt.
For easy caramel icing.
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.
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.
Cream sugar butter and crisco.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment whip butter for 8 minutes.
Saucepan combine all ingredients.
Cook over medium heat stirring constantly 3 minutes.
Frosting will be very light creamy and fluffy.
Frost cake with caramel icing garnish with pecan halves and grated orange peel if desired.