SARA LEE PECAN COFFEE CAKE RECIPE RECIPES

I won first place with this cake at the Cuyahoga County Fair (Cleveland, Ohio) in 1993. For a nuttier variation, you can substitute 1 cup of the flour with 1 cup of ground pecans.

Provided by CAROLE10

Categories     Pecan Desserts

Total Time 2 hours 20 minutes

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 1 hours 30 minutes

Yield 1 - 10-inch Bundt or tube pan

Number Of Ingredients 12

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 593.9 calories, CarbohydrateContent 89.7 g, CholesterolContent 142.1 mg, FatContent 23.8 g, FiberContent 0.8 g, ProteinContent 7.1 g, SaturatedFatContent 13.2 g, SodiumContent 171.3 mg, SugarContent 60.6 g

In 1871 a German immigrant named F. W. Rueckheim came to Chicago with $200 in his pocket. He used all of his money to open a small popcorn shop in the city and started selling a sweet caramel-and-molasses-coated popcorn confection. Rueckheim's big break came in 1893, when the treat was served at Chicago's first world's fair. From then on the popcorn's popularity grew enormously. In 1896 a salesman tasting the treat for the first time said, "That's a cracker jack," and the name stuck. Shortly after Cracker Jacks debut another customer commented, "The more you eat, the more you want," and that's still the slogan today. In 1912 the Cracker Jack Company started adding toy surprises, ranging from small books to miniature metal toy trains. To date they have given away more than 17 billion toy surprises. In 1964 Borden, Inc. bought the Cracker Jack Company, and today the Cracker Jack division is the largest user of popcorn in the world, popping more than twenty tons of corn a day.  Check out my clones for Fiddle Faddle, Poppycock, Screaming Yellow Zonkers, and Crunch N' Munch.  Source: Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur.

Provided by Todd Wilbur

Total Time 1 hours 0 minutes0S

Prep Time 30 minutes0S

Cook Time 30 minutes0S

Number Of Ingredients 8

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 197 calories