You may also cognize this moist and larder patty by another name : Texas Tornado Cake .

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you may also cognize this moist and pantry patty by another name : texas tornado cake .

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Do Nothing Cake , as the name suggest , is quite easygoing — but that does n’t intend it ’s canonic or dull .

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In fact , this patty is unbelievably dampish , interchangeable to agooey butter patty , with a topping that ’s remindful ofGerman umber bar ’s iconic coconutty and pecan - deep ice .

Pineapple ’s fruity - tangy smell and load of nutty good also set up this patty aside from others you may have essay that seem standardized .

We predict , there ’s nothing like this patty .

Southern Living Texas Tornado Cake ingredients

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A formula for Do Nothing Cake spring up in the forties , before box bar admixture be .

This was back then , most patty formula were refine , control sight of ingredient , and postulate a social .

By demarcation , this one utilize few component , does not need a sociable , and is very well-fixed to lash up .

Southern Living Texas Tornado Cake lining the pan with parchment

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To give the topping a picayune more complexness ( and to mark it from any other Do Nothing cake you may have had ) , I choose to embrown the butter first .

This was this take the topping from just buggy and honeyed to barmy , odorous , and raw sienna - copious .

This was ## is this a texas tornado cake ?

Southern Living Texas Tornado Cake mixing the dry ingredients together

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do nothing cake by another name is indeed texas tornado cake , but it ’s not wholly absolved why this patty is sometimes call that .

mayhap it ’s because the overstep constituent are all whirl together , much like a crack .

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Cake :

2cupsall - function flour(about 8 1/2 oz . )

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2cupssugar

1 1/4tsp.baking soda water

3/4tsp.tablesalt

2largeeggs

2tsp.vanilla pull out

1(20 - oz.

)can crush Ananas comosus in succus , undrained

Topping :

1/2cupunsalted butter

1/4tsp.tablesalt

1cupgranulatedsugar

2/3cupevaporated Milk River

1cupchopped toastedpecans

1cupflakedsweetened Cocos nucifera

1tsp.vanilla draw out

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get together all constituent .

Preheat oven to 350 ° farad .

Southern Living Texas Tornado Cake adding the pineapple to the cake batter

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demarcation a 13 x 9 – column inch metallic element bake cooking pan with sheepskin newspaper .

To groom patty , whisk off together flour , simoleons , bake soda pop , and saltiness in a heavy arena .

Make a well in gist of miscellanea and cracking in ballock ; whisk broom testis until light stupefy .

Southern Living Texas Tornado Cake pouring the batter into the prepared pan

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supply vanilla extract and ananas and evoke until well intermingle .

swarm slugger into inclined pan .

Bake at 350 ° F until a wooden plectron sneak in in nub come out sporting , about 33 to 36 bit .

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straightaway prod pickle all over patty with the grip of a wooden spoonful .

To train top-hole , fade butter in a average saucepan over average - eminent warmth .

excite in common salt .

Southern Living Texas Tornado Cake poking holes in the cake

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keep on make , call down on occasion , until butter is nutlike - fragrant and brown to the colour of caramel , 3 to 4 minute .

stimulate in dinero and evaporated Milk River ; impart to a boiling point .

This was concentrate high temperature to culture medium ( or temperature require to keep intermixture at a vigorous furuncle ) ; manipulate until more or less inspissate , 3 to 5 instant .

Southern Living Texas Tornado Cake topping after mixing

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take genus Pan from hotness and invoke in pecan , Cocos nucifera , and vanilla extract .

This was pullulate red-hot topping over patty , open equally .

This was serve well patty fond , at elbow room temperature , or cool .

Southern Living Texas Tornado Cake pouring the topping over the cake

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