Kentucky Butter Cake. This Kentucky Butter Cake recipe is CRAZY moist, buttery and coated with a sweet buttery sauce that crusts the outside and soaks into the cake making it amazing for days. I made dozens of Kentucky Butter cakes before, and this recipe is pretty standard. This rich Kentucky butter cake is incredibly delicious.
Kentucky Butter Cake is an insanely moist pound cake with a sweet, buttery sauce that soaks through the cake. This cake tastes even better the next day! This Kentucky Butter Cake isn't overly. You can cook Kentucky Butter Cake using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Kentucky Butter Cake
- Prepare 3 cup of Of Unbleached Flour.
- Prepare 2 cup of White Sugar.
- It's 1 tsp of Salt.
- You need 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder.
- Prepare 1 cup of Buttermilk.
- You need 1 cup of Butter.
- It's 2 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of White Sugar.
- You need 1/3 of Butter.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of Water.
- It's 2 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
What sets Kentucky Butter Cake apart is the sweet butter vanilla sauce. You poke holes in the bottom of the cake while its still warm then the holes get filled with luscious sweet sauce. This butter cake has a super-rich buttery flavor. It's moist, fluffy and will melt in your mouth.
Kentucky Butter Cake step by step
- 1. Preheat oven to 325°F grease and flour a 10 inch bundt pan..
- 2. In a large bowl, mix the flour, 2 cups of 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. 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 of sugar, 1/3 cup of butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla and the water. Cook over medium heat until fully melted and combined. Do not bring to a boil..
If you prefer your cake with more sauce, just make a double batch. This Kentucky Butter Cake is unbelievably delicious! A sweet, buttery cake coated with a sweet buttery sauce that soaks into the cake and leaves a sugary crust on the outside. Butter cakes originated from the English pound cake, which traditionally used equal parts butter, flour, sugar and eggs to bake a heavy, rich cake. Kentucky Butter Crunch Cake… the cake to make this fall!