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Kentucky Butter Cake

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!

  • Prep15 min
  • Cook1 hr
  • Total1 hr 15 min
  • Serves16
  • Rating4.9
Kentucky Butter Cake

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!

Kentucky Butter Cake

Kentucky Butter Cake Recipe

This Kentucky Butter Cake isn’t overly sweet and has plenty of butter flavor. It is the perfect cake to snack on while sipping a cup of coffee or tea. This is a typical pound cake type recipe with a dense texture, but not too dense. It’s easy to make from ingredients you likely have on hand.

All the ingredients get mixed together using a stand mixer, then the batter is poured into a Bundt pan and baked for about an hour.

While it’s still warm, you poke holes in the cake and let a delicious butter sauce seep down into the cake. The outside gets a little buttery and crispy and the inside is so buttery and moist.

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How To Make

(More detailed instructions in recipe card below.)

  1. Whisk together dry ingredients.
    Dry ingredients in a bowl.
  2. Cream butter and sugar.
  3. Mix in eggs one at a time.
    Mixing in eggs.
  4. Add vanilla to buttermilk. Add flour to butter mixture, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour.
    Cake batter in bowl.
  5. Transfer batter to pan and bake for 60 minutes.
    Batter in pan.
  6. While cake bakes, make butter sauce.
    Glaze ingredients in pan.
  7. Poke holes in cake and pour butter sauce into holes.

    How To Store

    This cake can be stored at room temperature for 4 to 5 days. Kentucky Butter Cake freezes really well. Just wrap it well in plastic wrap and then in foil.

    Kentucky Butter Cake with a sweet buttery glaze

    You’ll like this cake so much, you’ll be making an excuse to eat it first thing in the morning for breakfast. And it probably doesn’t need to be said, but this cake makes a wonderful dessert for a Kentucky Derby Party.

    If you are a fan of bourbon, check out this Kentucky Bourbon Butter Cake. It’s another amazing butter cake recipe.

    More Kentucky Inspired Recipes

    Kentucky Butter Cake recipe
    Watch the short video below to see how easy this cake is to make!


    Recipe Source: AllRecipes.com

    Originally posted February 26, 2018.

    Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links.

Ingredients

Butter Sauce

Equipment Bundt Pan, Baking spray with flour, Electric Stand Mixer

Steps

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease and flour a Bundt pan or use baking spray with flour .

  2. 2

    Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.

  3. 3

    Using an electric stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar for about 5 minutes.

  4. 4

    Mix in eggs one at a time.

  5. 5

    Add the vanilla to the buttermilk.

  6. 6

    Add flour mixture to butter mixture., alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.

  7. 7

    Pour batter into Bundt pan and bake for 60 minutes.

  8. 8

    Make butter sauce when you are getting ready to take cake out of the oven. Bring sugar, water, and butter to a low boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.

  9. 9

    After cake is removed from oven, poke holes in the top and pour the butter mixture down into holes. Let cake cool for about 10 minutes and then remove from pan. Don't let it cool much longer before removing from pan or it will stick.

Notes

Chop sticks or a wooden skewer is perfect for poking the holes.

Nutritional info is provided as an estimate only and will vary based on brands of products used. Not to be used for specific dietary needs.

Nutrition

  • Calories412
  • Carbs56
  • Protein5
  • Fat19
  • Sodium377
  • Fiber1
  • Sugar38

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