Country Amish Funeral Cake 1965

simple cake..and yes there is no baking soda or powder in this one...

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 12

Ingredients

• Cake

• 1  cup  room temp. butter
• 1  cup granulated sugar
• 1  cup dark brown sugar
• 2  teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3  cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
• 2  cups  fresh dairy buttermilk, at room temperature

• Topping

• 7  tablespoons butter, melted
• 1  cup dark brown sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon  grated fresh nutmeg
• 1⁄4 cup  whole milk
• 1⁄2 cup  chopped pecans or 1⁄2 cup walnuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven 350 degrees F.
2. Grease a 9 x 13 cake pan.
3. In mixer bowl cream butter and sugars well for three minutes.
4. In a small bowl whisk the flour and salt.
5. Add the flour and salt to the butter mixture, alternating with the buttermilk.
6. Beginning and ending with the flour.
7. Pour into pan and bake.
8. Bake 35 minutes until top springs back when touched.
9. Combine all topping ingredients together in a mixer bowl, then stir in the nuts.
10. When cake is finished, turn temp. to broil.
11. Pour topping all over the cake, and place under broiler at a distance of 8 inches below.
12. Broil for three minutes, until brown and bubbling.
13. Remove cool on rack.
14. Cut and serve from cake pan.