Sad Cake

Sad Cake

from southernliving.com
Dessert
100 min
12 servings

This retro 1980s recipe starts with Bisquick, and it has a devoted fan base for good reason. Don't let the name fool you: Sad Cake is cheerfully sweet, chewy, aalso if nd delicious.

Ingredients

  • baking spray
  • ½ cupsalted butter, melted
  • 2 cupspacked light brown sugar (or 1 [1 lb.] box)
  • 4 largeeggs, at room temperature
  • 1 ½ tsp.vanilla extract
  • 2 cupsall-purpose baking mix (such as bisquick original pancake & baking mix)
  • 1 cupchopped pecans

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 9- x 13-in. baking dish with baking spray.

  2. 2

    Whisk together melted butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until combined. Add baking mix and stir until mixture is smooth. Fold in chopped pecans.

  3. 3

    Pour mixture into prepared baking dish. Bake until toothpick or cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 25-30 minutes. Let cool completely in the pan, about 1 hour. Cut into squares and serve.