Mincemeat Cake With Pecans Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup milk. Add sugar, butter, eggs, salt, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, mace, 2-1/2 cups flour and the remaining milk; beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. , Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. , Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface;cover and let rest for 10 minutes. Roll into a 16-in. x 12-in. rectangle. Spread mincemeat to within 1 in. of edges. , Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seam to seal. Form into a circle and pinch ends together. Place in a greased 10-in. fluted tube pan, with seam facing the inside of pan. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 30 minutes., Bake at 375° for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool. Just before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar. Store in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray an angel food tube pan or 2 5x9-inch bread pans with nonstick cooking spray.
• Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, and salt together into a bowl.
• Stir the mincemeat pie filling, sugar, eggs, raisins, maraschino cherries, carrots, pecans, applesauce, canola oil, brandy flavoring, and vanilla extract together in a large mixing bowl. Mix about 1/3 of the flour mixture into the mincemeat mixture at a time, stirring 3 or 4 times after each addition. If the batter seems dry, stir in reserved maraschino juice, about 1 tablespoon at a time, until batter is desired consistency. Spoon the batter into prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cake is lightly golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease a 10-inch bundt pan.
• In large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, allspice, cinnamon, and salt; set aside.
• In large bowl with electric mixer, beat oil and brown sugar until blended.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add half the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
• Stir in apple, mincemeat, pecans, and vanilla.
• Add remaining dry ingredients; beat until well combined.
• Spread batter in prepared pan and bake 1 hour or until wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean.
• Cool cake in pan 15 minutes. Turn cake out onto wire rack and cool completely.
• For frosting:.
• Combine all ingredients until mixture is creamy. Frost cooled cake.
• Note: One year when I made this cake, I had a jar of hard sauce - I simply softened it and added it to the frosting as well for an extra kick (the hard sauce was flavored with rum and brandy).

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F and grease twelve 1/2-cup muffin cups.
• Finely chop pecans. Peel apple and cut into 1/4-inch dice. In a bowl whisk together egg, juice, and oil and stir in mincemeat and apple. Into a large bowl sift together flour, baking powder, and cinnamon and whisk in sugar. Add mincemeat mixture and pecans and stir batter until just combined. Divide batter among muffin cups and bake in middle of oven 20 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Turn muffins out onto a rack and cool 5 minutes.
• While muffins are cooling, make glaze:
• In a small bowl whisk together confectioners' sugar, cinnamon, and 3 teaspoons juice until smooth, adding enough of remaining teaspoon if necessary to make a spreadable glaze.
• Spread glaze over tops of warm muffins. Serve muffins warm or at room temperature. Muffins may be made 3 days ahead and kept in an airtight container at room temperature.

Steps:

• Mix 3 eggs in a bowl along with all the extracts (do not need to beat, just mix).
• Empty cake mix into large bowl.
• Add egg mixture and mincemeat.
• Add alcohol if desired.
• Mix thoroughly using mixer or by hand.
• Pour into 9x13 cake pan.
• Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until toothpick comes out fairly clean (do not over bake- mincemeat keeps cake moist so use discretion).
• Let cool for 30 minutes and remove from pan.
• Frost and serve.