Kentucky Bourbon Butter Cake

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I knew right away that I wanted to make a Kentucky Butter cake but I wasn't sure what I could do to make it different. It's not really a cake that needs a glaze or frosting and it just didn't seem right to add fruit or anything else inside of it. So I resigned myself to just making the cake as is, and had half of the ingredients in the mixer when the light bulb went off in my brain.

Kentucky.

Whiskey.

Add whiskey to the Kentucky butter cake and call it a Kentucky Bourbon Butter Cake! Is it a huge difference? No, but at least it's something, right?

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Kentucky Bourbon Butter Cake

A moist, buttery pound cake gets jazzed up a bit with the addition of whiskey.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time1 hour hr 5 minutes mins

Total Time1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Course: Cake

Keyword: baking, bundt cake, butter, kentucky butter cake, pound cake, sugar, whiskey

Servings: 12 -16 slices

Calories:

Author: NicholeL

Ingredients

For the Cake:

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon whiskey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup buttermilk

For the Glaze:

• 5 tablespoon unsalted butter
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 tablespoon whiskey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and spray a Bundt pan with baking spray. (Or grease with butter and dust with flour, shaking out the excess)
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs one at a time, followed by the whiskey and vanilla.
• Add in half of the flour mixture and half of the buttermilk and mix until combined. Add in the remaining half of the flour and buttermilk, mixing until no lumps of flour remain.
• Pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan and bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Leave cake in pan and place on a wire rack.
• Add the butter and sugar to a saucepan over medium heat and whisk until butter has melted. Do not boil! Remove from the heat and stir in the whiskey and vanilla. Pour the mixture over the cake.
• Allow cake to cool in the pan for 30 minutes to an hour. Place a plate on top of the pan and flip over, inverting the cake onto the plate.
• Slice into pieces and serve.

My coworkers went insane over this cake. The bourbon flavor is mild (perhaps I'll try this recipe again and use more!) but the cake is buttery and moist and has the right amount of sweetness. Of course, you really can't ever go wrong with using butter, sugar and bourbon, right? 😀

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