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Kentucky Butter Cake
This recipe is one of my family favorites for the holidays. It is a moist, buttery, sweet cake with a buttery sweet glaze that gives the outside of the cake an amazing crust. YOU WILL LOVE THIS!
- Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Ingredients
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For the Cake
- 1 C Salted Butter
- 2 C Sugar
- 4 Large Eggs (room temp)
- 1 C Buttermilk
- 2 TBSP Vanilla
- 3 C All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp Salt
For The Butter Sauce
- 1/2 C Salted Butter
- 1 C Sugar
- 1/4 C Water
- 1 TBSP Vanilla
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350°F
- Grease a bundt pan with real butter and dust it with flour and set it aside.
- In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt with a whisk or sift it and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, combine butter (softened) and sugar until light and fluffy (about 3 mins).
- Add one egg at a time, mixing thoroughly with each addition.
- In a separate measuring bowl combine the vanilla to the buttermilk, mix and set aside.
- Add about ⅓ of the flour mixture to the sugar mixture and mix well. Then add ½ of the buttermilk mixture and mix well. Alternate until gone. Starting and ending with the flour mixture and mix until combined well.
- Scoop batter in prepared bundt pan evenly and place in the oven for 50 mins or until tooth pick comes out clean.
- Remove cake from oven and poke lots of holes int he top of the cake with a tooth pick and let rest for about 10 mins.
- Butter Sauce Instructions:
- In a small sauce pan, over medium heat melt butter, but do not boil.
- Add water and sugar to melted butter and cook until sugar is dissolved (about 4 minutes).
- Remove from heat and mix in vanilla.
- Pour half the sauce evenly over the top of the cake and let soak in for five minutes.
- Place your serving dish upside down on top of the cake and flip it over to transfer the cake.
- Poke holes in the cake and pour remaining sauce evenly over the top of the cake and ENJOY!
Notes
Quality ingredients are super important here. I use Land O Lakes Butter (salted), and Shamrock Farms buttermilk and pure vanilla extract.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Additional Time: 0 hours
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 277
- Sugar: 26
- Sodium: 267
- Fat: 13
- Saturated Fat: 8
- Unsaturated Fat: 4
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 38
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 3
- Cholesterol: 62
