This Swedish Nut Cake recipe is a old vintage recipe I have been hanging on to for a few years. I knew the holiday baking season would be the best time to share it. Crushed pineapple is added to the cake batter and it makes it so moist that you could eat it without the pecan cream cheese frosting.
I am a collector of old fashioned vintage recipes. I collect old vintage cook books and recipe binders.
Occasionally I hit the mother load and find a very old recipe box stuffed full of old recipes.
Some of the vintage recipes are clipped from old magazines. Some are clipped from news papers.
Sometimes I get lucky and find an old hand written vintage recipe.
I love when I find old handwritten vintage recipes!
One of my all time favorite hand written vintage recipes is a vintage Hungarian dessert recipe for Zserbo Szelet,
Swedish Nut Cake recipe, Preachers Cake recipe and Hawaiian Wedding Cake recipe.
While I was trying to do some research to find out how old this Swedish Nut Cake recipe might be I learned a surprising thing. I don't think this Swedish Nut Cake recipe is an old vintage Swedish cake recipe as I assumed.
I found the same Swedish Nut Cake recipe called by a couple of other names.
It looks like my old vintage Swedish Nut Cake recipe is also known as Preachers Cake recipe, Pineapple Nut Cake recipe and Hawaiian Wedding cake recipe.
No matter what you decide to call this delicious old fashioned sheet cake recipe you should make is as soon as possible!.
The crushed pineapple makes it moist and tender. The chopped pecans add a lovely texture to the Swedish Nut Cake and to the Pecan Cream Cheese frosting it is topped with.
If you love Swedish desserts you might also like to try this Swedish Tea Ring cake.
Homemade Pecan Cream Cheese Frosting for Swedish Nut Cake recipe
You spread the sweet and nutty homemade Pecan Cream Cheese Frosting on the Swedish Nut Cake while it is still warm and it soaks in to the top layer of the nut cake almost turning the creamy cream cheese frosting into a glaze.
Nut Cake Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (I used my homemade vanilla extract)
- 20 oz can of crushed pineapple, undrained
- ½ cup pecans, chopped
Pecan Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 stick of butter, softened
- 1 ¾ cup of powdered sugar sifted
- 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract (I used my homemade vanilla extract)
- ½ cup pecans, chopped
- Optional ½ cup pecans chopped for garnish
Directions
- Preheat the oven and prepare a 9 x 13 inch baking pan by greasing it with solid shortening or butter and then dusting well with flour.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt together.
- Add the eggs, vanilla extract and crushed pineapple to the bowl and mix well.
- Fold the chopped pecans into the cake batter well.
- Bake in a preheated 350 F. degrees oven for 25 to 35 minutes or until the center is set.
- Remove the cake from the oven and allow it to cool for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Once the cake has cooled spread the Pecan Cream Cheese Frosting over the cake. (Frosting recipe below)
- Chill cake for an hour before cutting and serving.
Directions to make the frosting
- In a large mixing bowl beat well the softened cream cheese and butter.
- Next add half the sugar and the vanilla extract and beat well. Scrap the bowl and add the remaining powdered sugar. Beat for 1 minute on high.
- Fold the chopped pecans into the frosting.
- Set aside until the cake is ready to be frosted.
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Old Fashioned Swedish Nut Cake Recipe with Video
Ingredients
Swedish Nut Cake Recipe Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (I used my homemade vanilla extract)
- 20 oz. can crushed pineapple (undrained)
- ½ cup pecans (chopped)
Pecan Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients
- 8 oz. box cream cheese (softened)
- 1 stick unsalted butter (softened)
- 1 ¾ cup powdered sugar ((sifted after measuring))
- 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract (I used my homemade vanilla extract)
- ½ cup pecans (chopped)
- ½ cup pecans chopped ((for garnish))
Instructions
Directions to make Swedish Nut Cake
- Preheat the oven and prepare a 9 x 13 inch baking pan by greasing it with solid shortening or butter and then dusting well with flour.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt together.
- Add the eggs, vanilla extract and crushed pineapple to the bowl and mix well.
- Fold the chopped pecans into the cake batter well.
- Bake in a preheated 350 F. degrees oven for 25 to 35 minutes or until the center is set.
- Remove the cake from the oven and allow it to cool for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Once the cake has cooled spread the Pecan Cream Cheese Frosting over the cake. (Frosting recipe below)
- Chill cake for an hour before cutting and serving.
Directions to make Pecan Cream Cheese Frosting recipe for Swedish Nut Cake
- In a large mixing bowl beat well the softened cream cheese and butter.
- Next add half the sugar and the vanilla extract and beat well. Scrap the bowl and add the remaining powdered sugar. Beat for 1 minute on high.
- Fold the chopped pecans into the frosting.
- Set aside until the cake is ready to be frosted.
- A 9 x 13 inch cake.
- Serves 16.
Video
Recipe Expert Tips
- Sifted flour: measure the flour before sifting.
Robin
Can this be baked in a 9" 2 layer round cake? Someone is asking me to bake a Sweedish Nut Cake but they said the one they had was a layer cake.
Thank you
Arlene Mobley
Robin yes you can make a layer cake with this recipe. But you will have to adjust the baking time to account for the different size pans.
Julia Jackson
Been making this cake since the early 70's. Very good, one of my favorites
Karen Gilson
This sounds great, but is there really no shortening used? Or did I miss something? I would love to try it, but I’m not sure how it will work as written. Thanks!
Arlene Mobley
Hi Karen this cake has no shortening or oil in it. It is very moist from the crushed pineapple in the batter.
Diane Skinner
Can this be made into cupcakes?
Arlene Mobley
Yes, I am sure it could be made into cupcakes. The baking time, of course, will be much shorter. I would bake cupcakes for about 15 minutes and then check them. Depending on how hot your oven gets and what size cupcake pans you use the baking time could be 12 to 22 minutes.
Lucille DiBiase
My mom used to make an apple filled cake by sautéing the apples first then making the dough which was rolled out into a 13x9 inch baking dish and filled and topped with remaining dough & baked it was the best but unfortunately she left no recipe I was wondering if you have ever come across a recipe similar to hers would love to make it and reminisce with memories of her great cooking
Arlene Mobley
Lucille
I will keep my eye out when I am looking through my vintage cookbooks for a sauteed apple pie recipe.
Michelle
That sounds like such a fun recipe. I love the Hawaiian wedding cake name!
Veena Azmanov
I love amything Pecans or pineapples and you have both in this recipe. Yum. Saving for later.
Marisa Franca @ All Our Way
What a marvelous sounding and looking cake. The ingredients would certainly profess the cake a special cake. I bet the pineapple inside gives the cake lots of moisture and flavor. A keeper of a recipe.
Jolina
Yum!! This looks so delicious! The video made me so HUNGRY. I love that you collect vintage recipes. I think I'll start that too! It would be wonderful to find a handwritten recipe.
Denise Wright
That's so very cool that you collect vintage recipes! It reminds me of some of the books I've read where they put old family recipes as part of the story. Anyway, this looks so moist and delicious. I know my in lows would especially love it. I must make it for them.
Gloria @ Homemade & Yummy
I have my mom's recipe book, and it looks similar to that. Handwritten pages, sometimes only ingredients listed with no directions. Newspaper clippings attached with recipes. This cake sounds delicious and would feed a crowd.