Cakes with Pecans
Today we are sharing our most popular cake recipes with pecans! They are a key ingredient in many of our favorite cakes, adding richness of flavor and a bit of crunch. If you love nutty cakes and desserts, this roundup of recipes is for you!
Some of our most popular cakes with pecans are Italian Cream Cake, Butter Pecan Pound Cake, Carrot Cake, and German Chocolate Cake but there are so many more! We hope that you find something that you would like to try in this list. Enjoy scrolling through!
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Cakes with Pecans
We've made so many cakes with pecans over the years! You just can't beat the added flavor and bit of crunch that they bring to a recipe. Here is a roundup of our favorites!
Carrot Cake Recipe
Today, we are sharing our favorite Carrot Cake Recipe with you! This amazing scratch recipe has wonderful flavor from carrots, spices, pecans, coconut, and crushed pineapple.
Maple Pecan Layer Cake (Doctored Cake Mix)
This Maple Pecan Cake is a moist, delicious doctored cake mix recipe that is bursting with maple and pecan flavor.
Coconut Pecan Pound Cake
The combination of pecans and coconut in this decadent Coconut Pecan Pound Cake is amazing! This is such an easy scratch recipe with a moist, fine crumb.
Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Moist homemade banana cake layers are filled with butter pecan cream cheese filling and frosted with cream cheese frosting in this delicious cake!
Rum Cake- Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This rum-infused bundt cake has a wonderful balance of moist yellow cake, rum, and pecans. It is so decadent, flavorful, and EASY to make!
German Chocolate Cake Recipe
This classic German Chocolate Cake is SO good! The cake layers have the mild, sweet flavor of German Chocolate, and are filled and topped with a decadent pecan and coconut filling. It is heavenly!
Hummingbird Cake Recipe
This homemade Hummingbird Cake is wonderfully moist, with amazing flavor from banana, crushed pineapple, pecans, and a hint of cinnamon. It has a moist, tender crumb and is filled and frosted with homemade cream cheese frosting.
Baileys Toffee Pecan Cake- a Doctored Mix
This Baileys Toffee Pecan Cake is super moist and has amazing flavor from Irish Cream, pecans, toffee, and espresso- nobody would guess it starts with a simple yellow cake mix!
Butter Pecan Cake Recipe
This soft, moist Butter Pecan Cake is sure to become a favorite! The buttered pecan pieces add a bit of crunch in every bite, and wonderful pecan flavor
Praline Pound Cake
This ultra moist Praline Pound Cake has fantastic flavor from brown sugar, toasted pecans, and a praline glaze. We love this recipe year-round but especially in the fall and winter months!
Hummingbird Cake {A Cake Mix Recipe}
This Hummingbird Cake Mix Recipe is ultra moist, soft, and has wonderful banana flavor along with crushed pineapple, chopped pecans, and a hint of cinnamon. It's rich flavor is very similar to our scratch Hummingbird Cake Recipe
Pecan Caramel Bundt Cake
This Pecan Caramel Bundt Cake is so delicious with a flavorful blend of chopped pecans, cinnamon, a hint of brown sugar, and a luscious homemade caramel drip.
Vanilla Wafer Cake-A Classic Recipe
This classic Vanilla Wafer Cake, which uses vanilla wafer crumbs in place of flour, has AMAZING flavor from pecans and coconut! Once you've had a slice, you will understand why this rich, ultra moist classic cake has been a go-to cake recipe for decades. So good!
Chocolate Italian Cream Cake Recipe
Chocolate lovers will be thrilled with this delicious take on a treasured recipe. You can never go wrong with chocolate, coconut, pecans, and chocolate cream cheese frosting!
Banana Pecan Bundt Cake (A Doctored Cake Mix)
This ultra moist Banana Pecan Bundt Cake with Caramel Glaze has the perfect combination of flavors- and it all starts with a cake mix! It is so decadent, soft, and delicious.
Italian Cream Bundt Cake- Doctored Cake Mix
This Italian Cream Bundt Cake is AMAZING- it is so moist, has wonderful flavor from coconut and pecans, and it all starts with a box of cake mix!
Maple Pecan Cake with Maple Buttercream {A Scratch Recipe}
We LOVE this moist and flavorful homemade Maple Cake! It is a fantastic go-to recipe no matter what time of year, but we make it most often in the fall when we crave maple and pecan flavored desserts!
Pumpkin Praline Cake
Pumpkin Spice Cake Layers with a decadent Praline Topping make for the most wonderful dessert- this Pumpkin Praline Cake is a favorite for fall!
Chocolate Chip Pecan Cake {A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe}
This Chocolate Chip Pecan Cake is soft, moist, and so flavorful! Nobody would ever guess that it all starts with a yellow cake mix.
Chocolate Pecan Pie Cake
This decadent dessert consists of rich chocolate cake layers with a homemade pecan pie filling and topping!
Chocolate Turtle Cake Recipe
Today, we are sharing a Chocolate Turtle Cake Recipe that is absolutely delicious- I love this flavorful combination of decadent chocolate cake, homemade caramel sauce, toasted pecans, and a drizzle of rich ganache.
Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting
This moist Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake is a delicious twist on our classic caramel cake, but with toffee bits and pecans! We've gotten so many great reivews on this recipe!
Pecan Spice Layer Cake
Cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger give this Pecan Spice Cake recipe it's wonderful spiced flavor. The brown sugar and pecans take it to another level. Keep this recipe in mind the next time you are craving spice cake!
Maple Carrot Cake
Moist maple carrot cake layers are glazed with maple syrup and frosted with maple cream cheese frosting for an amazing dessert that is sure to become a favorite!
Maple Pound Cake
This decadent Maple POund Cake is extremely moist with a fine crumb and fantastic maple flavor. We topped it with homemade caramel glaze and a sprinkling of pecans. So good!
Apple Pecan Bundt Cake
This ultra moist apple pecan cake has amazing flavor with apples, cinnamon, pecans, brown sugar, and a luscious caramel glaze.
Sweet Potato Bundt Cake
This velvety soft sweet potato pound cake has just the right amount of spice. It is so good with caramel icing and a sprinkling of pecans!
Caramel Italian Cream Cake
In today's flavorful caramel version of Italian Cream Cake, coconut pecan cake layers are flavored with brown sugar, glazed with caramel, and frosted with caramel cream cheese frosting.
Coconut Hummingbird Cake
Hummingbird Cake is a classic southern dessert with amazing flavor from bananas, crushed pineapple, pecans and cinnamon. This Coconut Hummingbird Cake version incorporates flaked coconut as well- delicious!
Caramel Pecan Cake
This moist homemade Caramel Pecan Cake is the best! Super moist and so flavorful, with brown sugar, pecans, and caramel.
German Chocolate Cake (Cake Mix Recipe)
This "easier" version of German Chocolate Cake starts with a cake mix, but nobody would ever guess it. The thick and flavorful homemade coconut pecan filling and topping is heavenly! You will love this recipe.
Toffee Pecan Bundt Cake
This moist and tender Toffee Pecan Bundt Cake has a soft, fine crumb and wonderful flavor!
Banana Rum Cake (from cake mix)
If you love banana cakes and rum cakes, this recipe is sure to become an instant favorite! Nobody would ever guess that it starts with a box of yellow cake mix. It has a wonderful balance of banana and rum flavor, along with the crunch of a pecan topping.
Butter Pecan Pound Cake
This heavenly Butter Pecan Pound Cake is moist and tender with a fine crumb and wonderful butter pecan flavor.
Italian Cream Cupcakes (Cake Mix)
If you love classic Italian Cream Cake, with its flavorful combination of pecans, flaked coconut, and cream cheese frosting, you will love these easy Italian Cream Cupcakes! They are so fluffy and moist, and nobody would guess that the recipe starts with a box of yellow cake mix.
Butter Pecan Cupcakes (Cake Mix)
These easy Butter Pecan Cupcakes are soft, moist, and flavored with brown sugar and buttered pecans. We've topped them with our favorite cream cheese frosting. Keep this recipe in mind for your next special occasion!
Banana Nut Cake
Our new Banana Nut Cake has fantastic flavor from bananas, brown sugar, pecans, a bit of cinnamon, and a homemade caramel glaze. This delicious scratch bundt cake is sure to please a crowd, and it is simple to make!
Peach Pecan Pound Cake
This buttery peach pecan pound cake is flavored with diced peaches, chopped pecan, cinnamon, and brown sugar. You can make it with fresh peaches in the summer, or frozen peaches year-round! This dessert is sure to please a crowd, we hope you enjoy it!
Delicious selection of cakes! :-)