Easy Brown Sugar Toffee Cake
This moist Brown Sugar Cake is flavored with toffee bits, vanilla, a hint of cinnamon, and is frosted with cream cheese frosting. Nobody would guess that this delicious layer cake starts wtih a cake mix!
Prep Time: 15minutes mins
Cook Time: 28minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Servings: 15
Ingredients
- ▢1 Box Yellow Cake Mix We used Duncan Hines Super Moist (15.25 oz). I like to sift cake mix
- ▢3.4 oz (Small box) Instant Vanilla Pudding (Do not prepare the pudding.)
- ▢½ cup all purpose flour (60g)
- ▢½ cup dark brown sugar (100g) (You could also use light brown)
- ▢1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (3g)
- ▢½ teaspoon salt (2g)
- ▢1 cup sour cream (242g)
- ▢3 eggs room temperature (place in a bowl of warm water for 5 minutes if in a hurry)
- ▢1 cup milk (240g)
- ▢1 stick unsalted butter, melted (113g)(This is ½ cup)
- ▢2½ teaspoons Vanilla extract (10g)
- ▢1 cup toffee bits (We used Heath Toffee Bits) (If you cannot find toffee bits, you can crush toffee bars into small pieces instead.)
Cream Cheese Frosting
- ▢2 sticks unsalted butter softened (226g)
- ▢16 oz Cream cheese softened, full fat. We used two 8 oz blocks of full fat cream cheese.
- ▢2 teaspoons vanilla extract 8g
- ▢½ teaspoon salt 2g
- ▢6 cups powdered sugar (690g) Adjust slightly up or down to your liking.
Instructions
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