Pecan Crunch Upside Down Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup fine dry breadcrumb
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup butter
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup milk

Recipe

• 1 thoroughly butter bottom and sides of a fluted 1 quart tube pan or an 8" square pan.set aside.
• 2 mix pecans, melted butter, sugar, crumbs and salt.press this mixture on bottom and 1" up sides of pan.set aside.
• 3 cream butter and sugar.add eggs and beat until light and fluffy --
• 4 blend in vanilla.add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk, starting and ending with dry ingredients.
• 5 pour batter into pan.
• 6 bake at 350* -- 60-65 minutes.
• 7 cool 15 minutes, remove from pan.cool completely with crumb side up.pour vanilla glaze over crunch top.
• 8 vanilla glaze:.
• 9 1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar.
• 10 2 tbls milk.
• 11 1/2 tsp vanilla.
• 12 beat ingredients together until smooth.
• 13 pour over top of crunch cake.