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Grandma Hiers Butter Nut Cake

By Paula Deen

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Ingredients

Butternut Cake

  • 1 cup Crisco shortening
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs, beaten
  • 2 cups self rising flour
  • 1 cup of milk
  • 1 tablespoon Butter Nut Flavoring

Frosting

  • 1 - 8 ounce package cream cheese
  • 1 stick butter
  • 1 box powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons Butter Nut Flavoring
  • 1 cup pecans, chopped

Directions

For the Cake:

Preheat the oven to 350 °F. Adjust the racks to the middle of the oven. Spray three 9-inch cake pans with nonstick spray and dust lightly with flour.

Using a stand mixer, mix the granulated sugar and Crisco. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour and milk alternately to the creamed mixture, beginning and ending with the flour. Add butter nut extract and continue to beat until just mixed. Divide the batter equally among the prepared pans. Level the batter in each pan by holding pan 3 or 4 inches above the counter and dropping it flat onto the counter.

Bake until golden brown, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool the cakes completely before frosting.

For the Frosting:

Add the confectioners’ sugar to a bowl and whisk to make sure there are no lumps. Set aside.

In a large bowl, blend together the cream cheese and 1 stick butter with an electric hand mixer. Gradually add the powdered sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in butter nut extract. Stir in pecans (or reserve them to sprinkle over the frosted cake). Fill and frost the cake when the layers are completely cool.

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October 27, 2020
Never heard of Butter Nut Cake until Paula Deen’s Quarantine Video recently. OMG! This is a wonderful and deeeeelicious cake. Easy to make and so worth the effort. It is now in my type three favorite cakes and I love baking cakes. My husband was in heaven with every bite. Thank you Paula and Grandma Hiers!!

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October 25, 2020
paula has two butter nut cake recipes, 2018 and 2020. Why are recipes different in flour quantity and crisco vs butter?

Both butter nut cake recipes say originated from Grandma Hiers.  Are these actually 2 different cakes or just a modern version with the Crisco and less flour 2020 recipe versus the original made with butter and more flour?  Confused...are there errors in the actual recipe if this is one in the same?  


The Deen Team

October 26, 2020

Paula recently received the exact recipe for her Grandma Hiers' Butter Nut Cake from a relative. The older version was Paula's attempt to recreate it!

October 27, 2020
Thank you!  I had great success with the recipe!

October 22, 2020
What brand of butternut flavoring did you use?

 



unable to find one that looks like the one in this video.



 


The Deen Team

October 23, 2020

The brand is Superior Flavors! Here's a link: https://superiorflavors.com/product/the-original-vanilla-butter-nut/