BUTTERSCOTCH CAKE WITH BUTTERSCOTCH FROSTING
Calling all butterscotch fans….this is the cake for you! It’s one you will love and make over and over again.
If you love butterscotch, you will want to try these delicious Butterscotch Pecan Blondies! Super easy to make and soooo good!
❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
This cake is really fluffy and has a wonderful flavor and then you add the butterscotch frosting and it takes the whole dessert to a new level. It’s pretty easy to make too and will be a hit at any family gathering. It’s also a pretty cake, which is always a plus!
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
This recipe is made from scratch but you do use butterscotch instant pudding and butterscotch chips. We see a lot of these cakes with a cake mix but this is one is made a little differently. It results in a really delicious cake and the butterscotch pudding is a great addition!
SWAPS
We use buttermilk in this recipe and everytime someone will ask if they can use milk. I am sure you probably can and you can also make a buttermilk substitute, however, please know that by doing either of those you are removing fat from the recipe. Buttermilk is much higher in fat and that will change the recipe and it may not be as moist.
⭐TIP
If you find that the frosting is too thick, add more milk until it is the consistency you need it to be so you can easily spread it. The frosting will harden some once on the cake, but will still be delicious.
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Butterscotch Cake with Butterscotch Frosting
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 stick butter or 8 tablespoons or 1/2 cup softened
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 3.4 ounce box butterscotch instant pudding
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 cup nut pieces pecans or walnuts
Butterscotch Frosting Ingredients:
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- About 5 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Cream together sugar, butter and eggs with mixer. Add vanilla extract. Whisk together in another bowl the flour, baking powder, salt and butterscotch pudding mix. Add flour mixture along with buttermilk to creamed mixture and mix
- Fold in butterscotch chips and nuts with spoon. Spray a 9 x 13 cake pan with cooking spray. Spread cake batter in pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 30 to 35 minutes until center tests done. Add frosting
Frosting Instructions
- Melt chips and butter together in microwave or on top of stove. It takes about 1 minute 25 seconds in my microwave
- Add powdered sugar and a little milk while mixing with mixer. Continue mixing and adding milk until the get the frosting consistency you want. Spread over cooled cake.
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Hi Leigh,
If I do not add nuts to the batter, do I need to make any changes?
Thanks
Nope, it should be just fine!
Love the sharing of such easy recipes
YAY!!
Good morning,
I am going to make this today, but I only have the ” cook and serve” butterscotch pudding mix. Would this work?
No that isnt the same thing.
Hi! I made this cake but had trouble getting them out of my two round cake pans due to the chips settling on the bottom. Can I just melt them prior and add to batter? Also I do not see the nutritional information for this recipe. Thanks!
We don’t provide nutritional information Jan, we are southern cooks that enjoy sharing our recipes. I have never made this cake in cake pans, you can try melting the chips, but you wouldnt want to add them hot to the mixture as it has eggs in it.
Line your cake pans with parchment. I do that routinely now with all of my cake recipes.
This looks fabulous…I’d like to make individual cupcakes to take to the office…This should work out just fine, don’t you think so? I’d just have to watch for the time.. maybe 20 minutes or so? Would you have any other advice?
Thanks very much ( I love your recipes!)
Wendy❤
Yes.. I think start watching at 20 minutes! Thank you for the kind words, we are thrilled you enjoy them.
This was so easy to make and turned out wonderfully. Everyone loved it! Thank you for the recipe!!! I used walnuts. For me, it made the cake perfect!
Yay!! We’re thrilled you enjoyed it!
I made this yesterday to take in to work! Was so delicious! Great Butterscotch flavor! Frosting was yummy! Thank you for a great recipe!
Would love to try this but in New Zealand dont have butterscotch chips any suggestions love your recipes
Thank you so much, Colleen. So happy you enjoy the recipes. I am not sure there is a substitute for butterscotch chips. There may be a way to make your own if you try googling it.
could i make this cake in a sheet pan size 12×17 if so how long should i bake it for
Yes, I think you could do that fine, Pamela. I would just watch it and maybe cut the time by 10 minutes or so. Check the middle with a fork or something to see if done. Hope you enjoy the recipe.
Hiii!! This recipe looks yummy and easy to make. I’m new to baking, so I have a few questions before I got down to baking it:
1) What brand of buttermilk do you use?
2) Is it okay if I halved the recipe and made this in a 8” round pan?
Thank you!
I don’t use any special brand of buttermilk. Just whatever I can find at Walmart or Kroger but I do use the whole buttermilk and not the fat free. I think you could easily make half this recipe. Good luck and happy baking.
Could I make this in two 8″ round pans instead of a 9×13 pan?
Yes, you could do that Kathy.
This is fantastic! Not only tasty but so quick and easy to make.
I love your recipes,can all ways find something good to make!
Thank you for such a sweet comment Mary! Have a wonderful day!
I made this cake for my husband today since butterscotch & pecans are 2 of his favorite !!!! He loved it, well WE loved it ! He is recovering from foot surgery & this cake made him feel so much better !!! Thanks !
So happy to hear that Linda and thank you for letting me know. I hope your husband has a speedy recovery and a great Father’s Day.
Thank you .. South is the best!!!
This looks so good. I would have made it today, but didn’t have buttermilk. I know I could substitute, but want to try it the first time just as written. I love butterscotch!! Thanks for posting this recipe.
This does definitely look yummy.. Thank you…