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Southern Caramel Cake

October 18, 2017 by Modern Honey 12 Comments

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Southern Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting. A moist and fluffy yellow cake with sea salt caramel frosting. A Southern favorite cake! www.modernhoney.com

Southern Caramel Cake

Shut the front door. This Southern Caramel Cake is to die for, people! As you can probably tell by my blog, I kind of like baked goods. If “kinda like” meant a FULL-ON passion for baked goods kind of thing.  I am also pretty picky about my cakes.  I play around with my cake recipes until I get them just right and then never look back.

This Southern Caramel Cake is made with my homemade moist, tender, fluffy yellow cake made with a secret ingredient.  I am so glad to hear that people love this cake recipe! It has been pinned almost 100,000 times and still has a 5-star rating with 90 comments (and none of them are from my Mom!) 🙂

Southern Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting. A moist and fluffy yellow cake with sea salt caramel frosting. A Southern favorite cake! www.modernhoney.com

The cake, of course, is highly important as the crumb has to be just right.  But, the frosting should never ever be overlooked. Without a doubt, this can make or break a cake.  The Sea Salt Caramel Frosting on this cake is sinful and decadent.

Southern Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting. A moist and fluffy yellow cake with sea salt caramel frosting. A Southern favorite cake! www.modernhoney.com

So if you read my blog, you know that I am also obsessed with the weather. When I was a kid, before I wanted to be a sportscaster, I wanted to be a weather woman. I was like 9 years old and would beg my Mom to stay up for the 10:00 pm forecast.  As I became older, I begged to stay up for the weather and then the sports forecast. I am not sure if it was a stalling tactic but needless to say, I developed a real fascination with weather and sports. Go figure.

Around this time of year, I have a conversation that goes like this with my husband, “how is it still 97 degrees in the middle of October.” I reply, “honey, remember that we are still in shorts and flip-flops on Halloween. We are lucky if we can wear the thinnest sweater on Thanksgiving.” Every. Single. Year. Such is life in Arizona. It is supposed to be Fall but we are stuck with May temps. However, we are just pretending it is fall and making all kinds of salted caramel and pumpkin foods to imagine what it would be like to have those crisp Fall temps.

Southern Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting. A moist and fluffy yellow cake with sea salt caramel frosting. A Southern favorite cake! www.modernhoney.com

I made this cake recently and went crazy over the salted caramel frosting. It is sweet yet salty and pairs perfectly with this moist and fluffy yellow cake.  To make the salted caramel frosting, you use butter, dark brown sugar, heavy cream, powdered sugar, and sea salt. It creates the best caramel cake recipe!

My favorite baking tools for baking homemade cakes are the 8-inch Wilton Cake Pansand USA 9-inch Cake Pans and an angled spatula is a must to frost cakes. I keep mine a little rustic but you can also pick up a bench scraper for really smooth frosting. Don’t forget the Maldon Sea Salt Flakes.

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Southern Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting. A moist and fluffy yellow cake with sea salt caramel frosting. A Southern favorite cake! www.modernhoney.com

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Southern Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting. A moist and fluffy yellow cake with sea salt caramel frosting. A Southern favorite cake! www.modernhoney.com
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Southern Caramel Cake
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
50 mins
 
Moist yellow fluffy cake with salted caramel frosting. A Southern favorite!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: caramel cake
Servings: 16
Author: Melissa Stadler, Modern Honey
Ingredients
Southern Caramel Cake:
  • 4 Large Eggs
  • 2/3 cup Whole Milk or Buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 2 1/4 cups Flour
  • 1 1/2 cups Sugar
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 cup Butter softened, cut into cubes
  • 2 Tablespoons Oil
  • 1/3 cup Vanilla or Butterscotch Pudding Mix instant
Salted Caramel Frosting:
  • 12 tablespoons 1 1/2 sticks Butter, cut into 12 pieces and softened
  • 2 cups Dark Brown Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Heavy Cream
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups Powdered Sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Sea Salt Flakes
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, and vanilla.
  3. In a standing mixer, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
  4. Beat the butter into the flour mixture, one cube at a time. Continue to beat until it resembles coarse crumbs.
  5. Add the 1/2 of the egg-milk mixture and oil and beat the batter is light and fluffy. Add remaining egg-milk mixture and vanilla pudding and mix just until combined.
  6. Take a spatula and scrape the sides of the bowl.
  7. Spread into greased pans and smooth tops with spatula.
  8. Bake for 16-22 minutes, depending on the depth of pans. If the cake layers are thin, they will cook for less time than the thicker layers.
  9. Let cakes cool. Run a knife around edge of cake pan and flip over. Frost with salted caramel frosting.
  10. How to make Salted Caramel Frosting:
  11. Heat 8 tablespoons butter and brown sugar in large saucepan over medium heat until small bubbles appear around the edges of pan, about 4 - 8 minutes.
  12. Whisk in cream and cook until bubbles reappears, about 1 more minute. Remove from heat and whisk in vanilla.
  13. Transfer hot frosting mixture to mixing bowl and with electric mixer on low speed, gradually mix in powdered sugar until incorporated. Increase speed to medium and beat until frosting is pale brown and just warm, about 5 minutes. Add remaining 4 Tablespoons of butter, 1 piece at a time, and beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Frost cake immediately.
  14. *Frosting recipe adapted from Cook's Country recipe.

Southern Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting. A moist and fluffy yellow cake with sea salt caramel frosting. A Southern favorite cake! www.modernhoney.com

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Comments

  1. Lori says

    October 18, 2017 at 8:57 PM

    YUM! I’m want to make this cake NOW! But I’ve never used sea salt flakes. Just wondering, where do you get them??

    Reply
  2. Modern Honey says

    October 23, 2017 at 6:53 PM

    Hi Lori! Oh boy, it is SO good! My Mom made it for the family last night so I had a big ol piece of it. You can buy the sea salt flakes online or pick them up at the grocery store. This is what to look for — https://www.amazon.com/Maldon-Sea-Salt-Flakes-ounce/dp/B00017028M?th=1. I hope that helps! 🙂

    Reply
  3. Karly says

    November 20, 2017 at 9:46 PM

    I’m crying tears of deliciousness. From my mouth. Okay, I’m drooling, but this looks SO BEYOND AMAZING I JUST CAN’T HANDLE IT!!!

    Reply
  4. Carley Iwai says

    December 23, 2017 at 3:44 AM

    Do you use the instant pudding mix (powder) or are you supposed to make the pudding first and use that?

    Reply
    • Melissa says

      January 11, 2018 at 6:57 AM

      Just add the powder to the other ingredients.

      Reply
  5. Libby says

    February 13, 2018 at 10:56 AM

    What type of flour do you use (self-rising, cake, sifted, not sifted)?

    Reply
  6. Deborah Linker says

    August 17, 2018 at 11:25 AM

    This is the winner for the Grooms Cake, after many tastings and 10 more pounds. This recipe makes three layers, 8 inch cake pans. I did a few changes, you knew I couldn’t leave it alone. Sugar: 1 cup white, 1/2 cup brown sugar. Baking Powder increase to 3 teaspoons. Bake at 340 with wet baking strips. Baking strips help to make the cake level, and no dome effect, to be cut off.
    I tried to post a picture, but it wouldn’t let me

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  7. lisa says

    November 17, 2018 at 6:48 AM

    hello and happy holidays i know that you give us a preference but in this photo in this picture did you use buttermilk or regular milk, because depending on the type of milk can give you a different texture and fluffiness when it comes to the cake.. . thank you

    Reply
    • Modern Honey says

      November 17, 2018 at 6:09 PM

      Hello, Lisa! Happy Holidays to you as well! I would suggest using buttermilk. I am such a huge fan of buttermilk and it makes such a tender crumb. If you have it, go with buttermilk!

      Reply
      • lisa says

        November 19, 2018 at 8:25 AM

        Thank you so very much!!!!

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  8. Sarah says

    December 5, 2018 at 1:56 PM

    Have you ever added food coloring to this frosting? And would it be stiff enough to pipe flowers?

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    January 14, 2019 at 6:25 AM

    Hi! Can light brown sugar be used instead of dark?

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