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These simple Mini Pecan Cakes are best served alongside a cup of hot cocoa!
Let me tell you it has been a cold winter for this southern girl. We live in Tennessee so you don’t really expect a lot of snow and ice, especially since we lived in Northern Virginia before we came here. But we’ve had quite a few snowfalls and snow days this winter already. On cold days like that there is nothing I want to do more than to cozy up on the couch with a cup of hot cocoa and a warm blanket. That’s why I was so excited to receive my Cozy Collection from Starbucks®. It was complete with Starbucks® Hot Cocoa K-Cup®’s in both Classic and Salted Caramel. I knew I wanted to make a treat to enjoy alongside my Hot Cocoa so I decided to make these yummy Mini Pecan Cakes.
The Mini Pecan Cakes are perfect for a little treat to enjoy alongside a cup of hot cocoa while you’re curled up on the house. They’re also simple to make and if you don’t love pecans then you could make them without because the filling is just sweet and delicious. I know it defeats the purpose of the name but still it would be good!
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- dash of salt
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- Mix butter, cream cheese and flour together.
- Chill mixture for at least 1 hour, up to 48 hours
- Beat together egg, brown sugar, butter, vanilla and salt
- Make cups from the dough in a mini-muffin tin
- Add 1 teaspoon of brown sugar filling mixture
- Sprinkle chopped pecans on top
- Cook at 350 for 25 minutes
I love making little treats like these because they are perfect for a quick snack when you don’t want to fill up but just have a treat. These Mini Pecan Cakes went perfect alongside the rich, creamy Hot Cocoa K-Cup®’s that are made with real cocoa! There’s not much better than cozying up with this cozy kit and if you head here you could enter to win your very own Cozy Collection so you can stay cozy on these chilly winter days!
I’d love to hear your favorite ways to stay cozy in the winter?
These look delicious!
Those sound so good. I can’t wait to try them. They sounds awesome.
I won one of these kit and can’t wait to try it out. Now I have a delicious recipe to make with it. These little cakes look like the perfect compliment to cocoa.
Those would go amazing with a cup of coffee. I am a sucker for pecan pie so I know I would love them!
I would love to curl up in my big cozy chair with a blanket in front of the fire! Add in some hot cocoa and your Mini Pecan Cakes and I would be all set 🙂
I’d like to try this recipe. Looks and sound deliicous. These would perfect match for my afternoon tea.
Looks delicious and seems to compliment the hot cocoa well!
Love everything pecan and these cakes look so delicious! Too bad we don’t have Starbuck’s in Ukraine
I love pecan cakes and these mini treats are going to be an amazing treat on the go. I will have one for every day of the year!
Staying warm hasn’t been a problem here in So Cal, we’re having a heatwave!!! In the 80’s most days, but after the El Nino it’s meant lots of viruses and colds.
Pecans are my husband’s favorite. I need to surprise him with these.
These look so delicious! I don’t think I had even ever had a pecan until I met my husband and turns out I love them!
I love mini cakes! This sounds delicious! Thanks for the recipie. Ps: I like the font on the comment form.
The weather is so strange. We actually didn’t have any snow this year in Chicago. I can’t believe it’s March next week since it didn’t seem like we had a winter this year.
This looks really good! Would go great with some hot chocolate.
Omg these pecan cakes look amazing!!! I so need to give your recipe a try! Yum!
I might have to make these on cheat day. 😉 Thank you for linking up to the Tasty Tuesday linky. I have pinned your recipe to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board and my own recipe board. I hope you’ll join us again this week.
These are cute little cakelets – I’m not much of a coffee drinker but say Caramel Anything and I’m on it! 🙂 Thanks for sharing with us on Throwback Thursday & we’re looking forward already to what you’ll bring next week! 🙂
Mollie