Kentucky Butter Cake
photo by mboykin97
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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1 ten inch cake
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup white sugar
- 1⁄3 cup butter
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
- In a large bowl, mix the flour, 2 cups sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
- Blend in buttermilk, 1 cup of butter, 2 teaspoons of vanilla and 4 eggs.
- Beat for 3 minutes at medium speed.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean.
- Prick holes in the still warm cake.
- Slowly pour sauce over cake.
- Let cake cool before removing from pan.
- To Make Butter Sauce: In a saucepan combine the remaining 3/4 cups sugar, 1/3 cup butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla, and the water.
- Cook over medium heat, until fully melted and combined, but do not boil.
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Reviews
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Vanessa, While the recipe says to slowly pour the sauce over the still warm cake it dosent say you have to pour it over all at once. Sinnce the cake will stay warm for quite some time just wait for the first bit you pour to seep in before adding more. Reheat the sauce if it cools to much. Another trick if carefully done is to use the long tined fork that one picks up a roast with. That will make the holes much deeper into the cake and therefore absorb more sauce and much quicker. But press the tines in slowly as they are wider than a dinner fork too and you don't want to chop up your cake. Hope this helps. :)
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This is an incredibly moist and delicious cake. It was hard not to just sit at the table and pick off bits of the cake until we'd devoured the whole thing. Unfortunately, we can't make this too often, or we'd have to be rolled out of the house. I love that it doesn't start with a mix and that we typically have all the ingredients on hand. I used a skinny wood chopstick to poke holes in the cake and the sauce was beautifully distributed throughout. Thank you for this wonderful wonderful recipe!
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Tweaks
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I just made this after seeing it recommended as a good way to use up buttermilk. It's simple and heavenly, and that's despite my taking a stab at improving it's caloric profile. I used half as much butter (light type by Land O Lakes) and replaced the extra 1/2 cup with an oatrim / buttermilk slurry. I also used 4 extra large egg whites plus 1 extra large egg yolk, and a couple tablespoons lecithin granules instead of the 4 whole eggs. Finally, I used part Splenda in place of some of the sugar. The vanilla sauce really does provide the perfect finish to this cake. I used a pastry brush rather than pouring, and reserved about 1/4 c to apply to the top of the cake once it was removed from the pan. Can't wait to try other variations on the sauce, e.g., using honey instead of white sugar and water, or adding an additional extract like coconut, rum, or lemon. Thanks for posting.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Steve P.
United States