Butter pecan cake recipes

What come to your mind when you hear the word 'cake'?
Maybe a round birthday cake with candles, or a Tehzeeb/Bread & Butter black forest or fresh cream pineapple cake, with cherries on top?
Stay with me now... I have thought this through...
The 'cakes' I mentioned above are the western concept of cake... not ours... our cake is from the corner bakery; rectangular, with yellow slices... that's the Pakistani version.. sometimes it has jellies inside, but mostly it does not... its plain...
Stay with me... I really have thought this through...
The western cakes, with cherries on top, are not 'us'. We can imitate them as they make them in the west (I live in the UK, so trust me when I say the west is better at those cakes). We will never be as good at those.
I assure you, that when its tea time, I want the desi cake... the western ones just don't do it for me.. and then there is cake rusk... like, screw every biscuit ever made..
I am getting there, just stay with me... I have thought this through.. here we go...
If our team tries to imitate the SENA nations in its approach, we will do ok, but not great. We wont be playing to our strengths... we need to play to our strengths...
Our team is a bakery cake, rectangular, yellow, plain, not spectacular... but its ours. and come tea time (World Cup) we need to play to our strengths... Babar is the bakery cake (classic desi) with the jellies inside.. when you get one of those jellies in your mouth (the innings today) its just great!... he is not gonna have the cherries on top (career strike rate over 150, finisher like Virat) but cherries don't belong on a desi cake you know, and we should stop trying to pretend otherwise...

Recently I have been seeing a lot of posts about getting stuck at X weight, or “I cheated and now I am out of Ketosis.” So I wanted to share my journey with you and what has helped me go from where I was, 343 lbs at my heaviest, down to 280lbs as of this week the last time I weighed myself. Today I am lighter than I have been in over 15 years! I still have a long way to go, and my end goal is 200 lbs, because I want to be thin and attractive and I want people to respect me and not judge me because I am fat, just like you probably reading this right now. Well, I am here to try and help!
My journey started with an initial health scare from when I visited the doctor back in 2019, as you are all probably aware of, pre-diabetic, stage 3 fatty liver, ect… I had known about Keto diets in the past, when I was younger, the low carb diet at the time was Atkins, and I had used this diet before to keep my weight in check as I have always struggled with my weight, but that was back in my early 20s. My solution to fixing my health problems (and weight problem) was to go back on a ketogenic diet.
In 2019, I went through the struggle of getting my body in ketosis, dealt with keto flu, low energy, and was able to overcome those challenges and get on a good track of staying low carb. I managed to do this for about a year before I started to slip. It started with small slip ups here and there “a few Doritos wont hurt, its just a hand full.” “A small piece of cookie wont hurt.” Before I knew it (mid 2022), I was kicked out of Ketosis and craving high carb foods again and back into old eating habits. I went from 343 down to 283 then back up to 312 lbs, Darn! I was losing the battle...
Then in 2023, I started having health issues again, which I won’t go into details, and I wanted to get my health in check for good. What was needed, in my opinion, was a fundamental shift in the way I (we) view food. We need to look at food as an essential building block and an energy source for our body and get out of the mindset of looking at food for comfort and enjoyment. This is not an easy thing to do and is probably the hardest thing I have ever done next to getting an Engineering Degree, but if you can master this one thing, you will be hugely successful in your journey to losing the weight and being healthy.
Step 1: Small steps and Logging
My first piece of advice is start small. Yes, you are impatient and yes you want to be thin RIGHT NOW! I get it, but this won’t happen overnight. This is a long process that takes a long time. You are fighting an uphill battle. You are probably surrounded by people eating all kinds of high carb foods, you probably got that skinny friend/relative that can eat anything and stay thin (NOT FAIR! I totally get it..). The first thing I recommend is track absolutely everything you eat. Lose it is only $3 bucks/month (best money I ever spent). Do not try and diet yet, just track what you are eating. Eat a cookie? Log it! Eat an entire party bag potato chips? Hey don’t sweat it! But LOG IT! Get into the habit of logging absolutely everything you put into your body no matter what it is, and don’t judge yourself for your bad eating habits, don’t worry you and me, we are going to fix this together!
After about a week (maybe 2 weeks), make a small change… I was eating about 250 net grams of carbs per day, so I set a reasonable goal for the next week… Lets see if I can get that down to 150 net/day for a week. One week goes by, easily beat it! All it took was cutting some bread out of my diet as well as rice and potatoes. Next step, 100 net/day. Weeks goes by I was at 120 net/day. Darn! I tried my best, but next week, I’m going to do it! Next week goes by I was at 99 net/day. Yes! I did it I hit my goal. Let’s see if I can do it again and again. 2 more weeks go by, and I was down to 80 net/day without hardly trying. Then I lowered my goal to 50/day and that is when it started to get hard. Now I had to cut that slice of toast out of my diet with my morning eggs. I had to cut that bowl of rice out with my meat. I had to really start making some hard changes, and I wasn’t always successful during the first month. I went over and hit 60/day, but I kept at it, kept logging. Today I average 21 Net/day carbs (not too bad right). The best part about the second time I got myself into Ketosis, there was ZERO side effects. No keto flu. I did have electrolyte imbalances for a while but was easily fixed with upping potassium and adding more salt to my food.
The key here is set reasonable goals for yourself that you know you can beat, you wont always be successful, but keep at it. Breaking bad habits is hard, but if you keep logging, and you keep at your goals, eventually you will break it!
Step 2: Eat only nutrient dense foods
This goes back to looking at food as building blocks and energy for your body, make sure every food you eat is to fulfil a specific nutrient requirement. You need more potassium, eat more kale/spinach, need to get your vitamin D up, eat some smoked salmon. Over time, your taste buds will change, and you will start really enjoying the foods you are eating. I absolutely LOVE kale now!
Also, this includes keto-friendly foods like bacon. I do not eat bacon. There is almost no nutritional value in eating it, so why eat it? Eat some steak instead.
If I eat a food with Carbs, it will be a very nutrient dense food and because my body needs those nutrients. What kind of foods am I talking about? Here are some examples:
73% + or more cocoa chocolate
Berries (strawberries for example)
Lemons/limes
Nuts and seeds of all kinds.
All kinds of vegetables like broccoli, spinach, kale, Peppers, Onions
The Key to staying in ketosis when you are consuming foods with carbs is moderation. Yes that 70% chocolate has sugar in it, but I eat one square MAX per day. That one piece of chocolate has 4.7 grams of net carbs and 2 grams of fiber. There is plenty of room in my daily carb limit to allow for it. As long as my weekly average total carb intake stays under 25 grams/day, I am good (my personal set goal).
Step 3: NO CHEAT DAYS!!!
Once you are in the groove, and you got your carb intake to your set goals, be EXTREMELY strict with food intake. Allow for ZERO cheat days and have a ZERO tolerance policy on any "empty carb" food. What do I mean by empty carb? any food that is high in carbs and has no nutritional value, like cookies, chips, ice-cream ect... Cheating will get you kicked out of ketosis and is the path back to bad eating habits and putting the weight back on and that is exactly what happened to me! Just don’t do it. We are not eating for comfort anymore; we are eating because our bodies need this specific nutrient. This is the goal.
Step 4: Fasting
You don’t need to do this right away, make sure you get yourself into the habit of logging, and eating foods that are nutrient dense and make sure your body is in ketosis first. Like with before, don’t try and jump headfirst into fasting, take small steps and build on it every week. Start with a shorter duration fast once per week, for 12 hours, then increase slowly until you hit 18 hours. The end goal here is twice per week for a minimum of 18 hours. If you get hungry and you cant do it, don’t beat yourself up over it, its hard! Your body will fight you and want you to eat. Try again the next week with your set goals. Just make sure you are eating those nutrient dense foods we talked about above. As your body becomes more and more fat adapted, this will get easier and easier.
I am currently fasting for 24 hours on Mondays and Tuesdays. Monday morning I eat 2 fried eggs and drink my coffee with half and half then fast until Tuesday morning. Then on Tuesday morning, I will eat 2 fried eggs and that same coffee without eating until Wednesday morning. It is currently Tuesday and I have not eaten since this morning. I won’t eat until tomorrow morning.
To prep your body for long fasts that will allow your body to eat itself with ease is making sure you are LOADED with TONS of nutrients, (remember step 2?). Saturday and Sunday are prep days for that fast. I eat dark leafy greens, like Kale, and Spinach, cheesy broccoli I make myself, peppers, ect... I eat lots of nuts and seeds, Walnuts, pecans, brazil nuts, peanut butter, steak, Smoked raw salmon. I will eat a little bit more than my metabolic rate, about 200 calories more (2500 cal). I also generously salt everything so that I am around 4000 MG for the day. This will load your body with potassium, magnesium, and sodium. Then I go into my fast on Monday. Perfect for me since I need to be at work on Monday and Tuesday.
If you do this, when you go into your fast, you will have plenty of nutrients/electrolytes for your body to just eat your own fat off your body. You probably wont even feel hungry for many hours on end, but if you do get hungry, drink lemon in water, or apple cider vinegar to suppress your hunger.
Now, the key to coming out of your fast is to NOT over-eat. Eat VERY SLOWLY (I cannot emphasize this enough). Take bites, chew, put your fork down, wait 10-30 seconds after you swallow, then take another bite. Eat high fat foods like cheese, eggs, peanut butter. This will help you feel satiated. Try and keep your first meal out of a fast at around 1000 calories.
Step 5: Exercise
Try and add exercise into your weekly routine and this will help you lose the weight even faster, but is not necessary to lose the weight. Exercise is really good for you anyway. For me personally, I picked up swimming (I swim 2 miles 3x per week now), and I feel great afterwards, all those endorphins! So why not?
Step 6: For life!
What do I mean for life? What I mean is that you need to view keto as a for life plan. The key to staying healthy is eating healthy. So why ever go back to your old way of eating? On this diet, I feel great, my libido is way up and I have tons of energy to do things! I want to go outside and work on my car! I want to go to the gym. When you are eating healthy, you will feel amazing, you will have moments of euphoria, you will be happy, you will have an amazing sex life! That guy/girl you like at the gym will notice you. You will no longer be ignored! You will also be smarter, your mental clarity will be better than ever, you will be able to focus on your goals!
Final piece of advice: You will fail… yes you will fail at your goals over and over again, I still fail my goals once in a while. Last week I had a day where I went up to 30 net/day carbs and ate 2600 calories (DARN!), but I didn’t give up! I wont give up! Sometimes you will slip, but as long as you set reasonable goals for yourself and tighten those goals solely over time, and you keep at it, you will be successful in the long run, and you will get the weight off! Don’t focus on the scale, but focus on getting into healthy eating habits, focus on exercising and I promise you, the weight will come off!

My peanut butter ice cream freezes too solid and doesn't scoop well, it is crumbly. I make other flavors with this basic recipe and they are perfect. I've tried adjusting the recipe by decreasing the amount of peanut butter and increasing the condensed milk and heavy cream but I'm afraid if i decrease the pb more, it will lose the flavor. I use a stand mixer
Peanut Butter 2.0: 1300ml Heavy Cream 800ml Sweetened Condensed Milk 2tsp Vanilla 200g PB

For Mother’s Day I tried to made a génoise cake but after I baked it , it didn’t really rise and was kinda dense. Any advice on where I went wrong ?
Recipe: 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter 1 cup of sifted cake flour 1/2 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 4 eggs, room temp 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
Baked in an oven at 350F

My energy level has gotten abysmal
Tldr: I'm physically and mentally limited by my energy level and I'm wasting away, which feeds back into low energy. But I'm doing a lot of things to fight it
On Sunday I made a breakfast cake for the fam and just cooking up that little recipe, I went to catch a 20 minute nap and woke up at almost 10pm. Just for reference my dad thought I would be a chef, making a cake used to be light work
I have to lay in bed or nap after I do anything. I have really bad amotivation that feels like physical weight dragging me down and low energy levels caused by depression
I'm physically restricted from doing even mildy energy intensive tasks after I've done a "big" one.
And like 3 small things will become a big thing
I'm in bed between everything, so easily 22 hours a day including sleeping. I had to get physical therapy because of muscle atrophy
I used to lift heavy weights and had my body type compared to a gorilla. Now I can barely sit up in bed. How am I supposed to live an active lifestyle if I can physically only stand for a few minutes?
Tomorrow I decided to get my shit together. I'm going to wake up at like 4 am and go on a walk. I don't want anyone to look at me I'm sure you understand. Otherwise I'd go right now.
And risparidone made me put on 100lbs, which tanks my energy. I started working on losing that 2 weeks ago. I know this doesn't sound healthy, but I lost 15 pounds so far. My diet is to only eat 3 meals a day and get 1 helping each meal. I'm just glad my weight doesn't start with a 3
Im also working on getting a cpap machine
If I stay the course I can break out of this because nobody can live like this

I'm looking for a super moist and tasty chocolate cake that I can bake for my kids. I normally bake loaf style cakes as I love using the Pullman loaf pan (I really enjoy the way it looks on the cake stand).
Seeking a recipe that is excellent on its own without frosting or ganauch, however chocolate chips ok. It wouldn't be a celebratory cake but one I can bake on a Friday to offer for a couple of days. Would greatly appreciate any recommendations.
p.s if you don't have a chocolate cake recipe to offer but are thinking of a great recipe that lends itself to the Pullman loaf pan I would love to know, so feel free!

You can see some of my earlier posts with my gallbladderless journey, but I wanted to give an update since so many who improve move on from these threads and leave these forums with a skewed view of recovery. It took me a good 6 months to start improving. I continued losing weight after surgery and the nausea prompted an MRCP to see if there were any lingering issues. I kept being told everything looked perfect and to give it time. I had a lot of anxiety and panic around food and getting sick. I’m still Covid conscious so I don’t do public outings often, but the one time I tried to eat out early into recovery I cried and had to go home. The mental impact of having a persistent or chronic illness was probably harder than the illness itself, but I forced myself into a routine. The only constants I had were my planned meals and my daily walks, both of which were life saving. I’ve eaten the same breakfast since early in recovery, Kodiak protein waffles and sliced apples. Lunch is usually whatever my 5 year old consumes; peanut butter sandwich or dino nuggets, white cheddar popcorn or baked lays. Snack used to be exclusively an apple cinnamon rice cake with dark chocolate hummus and cut up strawberries, but in the last 2 months or so I eat a Chobani flip (Boston cream is the best one, don’t fight me on this). Dinner 80% of the time is baked chicken breast, a vegetable (usually baby carrots), and, my lord and savior, Costco rice made in my zojirushi rice maker. This was an investment after my sibling made me rice in theirs days after surgery. I didn’t even think I liked rice for 3 decades until I had well prepared rice. I love it so much now sometimes I’ll eat it as a snack or my whole meal. After dinner I have walked every evening since surgery to aid digestion. It really brings the burps and toots out. A month or 2 after surgery my once a day poo turned into diarrhea so I started one heaping teaspoonful of sugar free psyllium husk after breakfast to firm up my poo (the timing is better for bile dumping symptoms for people without gallbladders). I believe this consistency is what helped me improve after my body stopped being in survival mode. I lost 40 pounds in just a few months before and immediately following surgery so it’s clear I needed time to adjust. I let go of the expectation of when I was supposed to feel better and trusted my body. Once a day walks turned into twice a day when I had the energy. My stamina is nowhere close to being at baseline as I’ve lost a lot of muscle tone, but I’m slowly working up to exercising more (walking IS exercise contrary to what some of these gym bros claim). I eat smaller, more frequent meals as opposed to heavy, dense ones. I experience low heart rate and low blood pressure episodes when I am stressed, eat too much sugar, or sometimes it’s random, so I watch my sugar intake (NEVER on an empty stomach), salt load when symptoms come on, and lay down if I can until it improves. I have struggled a lot with freezing at night, but that’s improved in the last month, probably because I’ve managed to gain a few pounds. I’m more liberal with my diet now, but I did so slowly and I don’t push myself. I still get anxiety about ordering out because I have a severe fear of throwing up from eating food prepared by somebody else + the risk of norovirus. I’ve recently been able to tolerate small amounts of heavier dairy like alfredo and ice cream. I eat a couple bites of red meat when served, but it’s infrequent (twice since surgery). Despite what I’m still dealing with I’m very glad I had surgery. I know I would’ve died if something didn’t change. Plus, my lab work is the best it’s been in my adult life. My triglycerides alone dropped by 55% in a year from eating clean. So if you’re reading this wondering if you’ve made a mistake, give it time. Advocate for yourself, but also give your body time to adjust. Some people take years to improve and I think my timeline will be about that to confidently say I’m completely better. Good luck to everyone!

I love American buttercream but I usually find it giving me all types of issues (usually having to do with bubbles or being too soft). I just like how easy it is to make. I don’t looove the sweetness but I do try to cut it back with salt. I find that many times when I’m making cakes (which is my passion and joy!!) the buttercream will make end up feeling like I’m failing and just really stressed out. I don’t know why this happens bc American BC is supposed to be the easiest to work with right? Or am I wrong? Anyway I want to know what buttercreams you guys would recommend orrr what buttercream do pros use so they’re not wasting time trying to smooth out the BC or firm it up again and again. I have tried SMBC and I just didn’t like that shiny almost greasy look and also it wasn’t sweet enough for me lol and also I just do not want to always have to have eggs or egg whites on hand. I want a reliable, smooth, sweet but not soooo sweet buttercream (without having to use eggs!). Please help so I can make more cakes and stop wasting time on making the frosting 😭 whether it’s a bake blog, TikTok video, YouTube, instagram, recipe in a book, recipe by a master baker etc etc, gimme what you got!

Basic recipe - in a big cappucino style/wide mug, beat together
1 egg, 1tbsp butteoil, 3tbsp almond flour, 1/2tsp baking powder (or 1/3 of that amount soda bicarb)
Consistency should be thick pancake batter, microwave for 2-3 mins depending on microwave wattage, should just drop right out of the cup if it's cooked, slice when cold, toast it, fry it, whatever.
Nice, gets boring after a while ... things I have tried, from the obvious, to the WTF - some of these need the addition of water, just a few drops to 1/2 tsp at a time to get the mix consistency back to about where it should be: -
Add seeds
Instead of butter or oil, substitute peanut butter (crunchy, always) or cream cheese or the fat that came off a roast meat joint (basically lard tbh) or pesto (WEIRD colour bread, tastes nice though and delicious toasted with cheese on top)
Add marmite (I'm British, judge all you like). This one is nice just on its own as a snack :D
Add ginger - not so sure about this one, I might have not added enough to get a good flavour so will give it another shot sometime.
My next trials will be with different 'flours' - I have a ground seeds and nuts one I'm about to test. I am also going to try paprika, as I reckon that bread with cream cheese topping could be delicious. Also, black pepper, as that could be amazing as the toast to go with scrambled egg.
Sadly intolerant to chilli and most curry-type spices (curry powder, garam masala, etc).
Any other suggestions, and opinion on the result if you've tried them?

Hi all! My partner and I both work from home, and I love to bake but we can’t eat a whole cake by ourselves. I love the idea of making a mini round by halving cake recipes. What is the math on this? Let’s say I wanted to make a 2 layer coconut cake which calls for using two 8” cake pans. Would I half the recipe and use 4” cake pans? For some reason I feel like that would be too small?
If I am right, and I should be buying 4” rounds, what is the most common size of pans for cakes? I feel I always see recipes asking for 9” or 8”. If I’m planning on making a lot of “half cakes” what size should I get to be able to make the most recipes?

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Hi all, not a post I thought I’d have to make. I’ve been doing cake orders for a few years now and have become pretty proficient in cakes and such. Last week I made an order for a customer, using a recipe I have used for years. All seemed ok and they were happy with the cake I delivered. However, afterwards I received a message from her explaining that when they served the cake, it seemed raw, didn’t taste nice and was basically inedible. I do not think she’s lying, but I am completely stumped in why this happened and how to respond. I apologised of course and have given her a full refund but I just feel really disheartened and discouraged from baking now. I’ve never had this happen before and I don’t know why when the cake seemed fine when I was assembling it. Any advice is appreciated, thank you

This might sound pretty silly. But I'm not very knowledgeable about cooking in real life, and I don't really like using Google to look things up when it comes to games. I don't mind using Reddit and stuff for tips, I just don't like flat out looking up the answer!
But for cooking, it seems like I need some actual knowledge. Like when I had to make ratatouille with no recipe, how am I meant to know? Trial and error with 5 ingredients will take forever!
Is it just a case of literally guessing and building up a recipe list that way, or is there something I'm missing? It might sound silly to people who know how to cook so will instinctively know what ingredients to use, but that just isn't knowledge I have!
When I had to make a banana pie for Remy, I was like, ok, banana, cool. Then maybe butter..... and eggs? Maybe butter and milk? Took me a long time before I even thought about wheat!