$40,000 Cake

½ cup butter
¼ cup whipping cream
1 cup brown sugar

Melt the above in a saucepan, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and add:

¾ cup coarse chopped pecans

Divide this mixture in half and pour into 2 eight inch round cake pans and set aside. DO NOT GREASE.

Mix the following in a bowl:

1 Pillsbury Devil’s Food Cake Mix
1 ¼ cup water
1/3 cup oil
3 eggs

Mix the above ingredients, divide in half and spoon carefully over the top of the mixture in the 8 inch pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 35-45 minutes. Cool for only 5 minutes and then carefully invert onto a cooling rack. Allow cakes to cool.

Mix the following:

1 ¾ cups heavy whipping cream
¼ cup powdered sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla

Beat until soft peaks begin to form. Then place one of the inverted cakes on a cake plate and top with half of the whipping cream mixture. Then lay the other inverted cake on top of the whipping cream mixture and top with the remainder of the whipping cream mixture. Chill until served.

If you serve this cake on a footed cake stand everyone will think you're a foodie rockstar.

Enjoy! -S