BROWN SUGAR LOAF CAKE – The Southern Lady Cooks

This Brown Sugar Loaf Cake is a delicious treat! This recipe makes two loaves, so enjoy one and take one to a family gathering. We love the addition of maple cream cheese frosting.

If you are fan of recipe you definitely want to check out this delicious Blueberry Loaf Cake! It’s simple to make and only makes one loaf.

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

We love maple and we love brown sugar so this recipe has two of our favorite things. We also love that it makes two loaves so we can share with family and friends. We love to add pecans to the top and feel this adds to the recipe. This can easily be a delicious dessert or served for breakfast with coffee.

🍴KEY INGREDIENTS

• Butter, softened (2 sticks) 
• Shortening 
• Brown sugar 
• White sugar 
• Eggs 
• Baking soda 
• All-purpose flour 
• Whipping cream
•  Vanilla 
• Chopped pecans (add extra for topping of cakes) 

Maple Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients

• Cream cheese softened to room temperature
• Butter, softened 
• Powdered sugar
• Maple flavoring

SWAPS

You can easily substitute walnuts for the pecans. If you are not a fan of maple cream cheese frosting, you can add vanilla in place of the maple.

🍽️HOW TO MAKE

This recipe isn’t hard, the most time consuming part is getting out all of your ingredients. I like to have them all out an organized before I start.

COOKING STEPS

Step 1
Cake instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and shortening together with a mixer, gradually adding brown and white sugar until light and fluffy. 

Step 2
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl, once combined, add to the wet mixture a little at a time, alternating between adding milk too. 

Step 3
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl, once combined, add to the wet mixture a little at a time, alternating between adding milk too. 

Step 4
Once all is combined add the vanilla extract and the pecans. Pour into two greased 9X5 baking pans and cook for 50 minutes and test for doneness. Pound cakes vary; this took one hour for my oven, so start testing at 50 minutes. Let cook and add frosting. 

⭐TIP

I think you could easily half this recipe to make one loaf but I haven’t tried it. If you do, let us know in the comments!

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STORING & SERVING SIZE

This recipe makes two cakes, each cake is about 8 servings. We store this loaf cake in a cool place.

Brown Sugar Loaf Cake

Anne Walkup

This Brown Sugar Loaf Cake is one of our favorites. We add a maple cream cheese frosting and it really takes this cake to the next level. This recipe makes 2 loaf cakes.

Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

• 1 cup of butter softened (2 sticks)
• ½ cup of shortening
• 2 cups of brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of white sugar
• 5 eggs
• ½ teaspoon of baking soda
• 3 cups of all-purpose flour
• 1 cup of whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons of vanilla
• 1 cup of chopped pecans add extra for topping of cakes

Maple Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients

• 8 ounces of cream cheese softened to room temperature
• 1 stick of butter softened
• 3 cups of powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon of maple flavoring

Cake instructions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and shortening together with a mixer, gradually adding brown and white sugar until light and fluffy.

• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl, once combined, add to the wet mixture a little at a time, alternating between adding milk too.

• Once all is combined add the vanilla extract and the pecans. Pour into two greased 9X5 baking pans and cook for 50 minutes and test for doneness.

• Pound cakes vary; this took one hour for my oven, so start testing at 50 minutes. Let cook and add frosting.

This recipe makes 2 loaf cakes. 

Keyword Brown Sugar Loaf Cake

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