Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Important: All ingredients must be at room temperature.
  2. Mix butter and Crisco.
  3. Add brown sugar, a little at a time, and beat well.
  4. Add white sugar and beat until fluffy.
  5. Add eggs one at a time.
  6. Add vanilla.
  7. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together.
  8. Add flour mixture alternately with milk. Fold in pecans.
  9. Pour into a greased tube cake pan.
  10. Bake at 325F for 1 1/2 hours.
  11. When cake comes out of oven, begin making frosting. (Frosting will harden if made first.)
  12. While cake is warm, pour frosting over cake.
  13. Frosting: Combine butter, brown sugar and milk in saucepan and cook 2 1/2 minutes after coming to a boil.
  14. Remove from heat.
  15. Add pecans and pour immediately over warm cake.