Kentucky Butter Cake

Ingredient List

1 C Butter, Cubed and Room Temp.

2 C Sugar

4 Eggs

1 Tb. Vanilla

3 C Flour

1 Tsp. Salt

1 Tsp. Baking Powder

1/2 Tsp. Soda

1 C Heavy Cream with 2 Tsp. Lemon Juice, set aside

(or you can use 1 cup buttermilk)

Glaze

1/4 C Butter

3/4 C Powdered Sugar

2 Tb. Milk

2 Tsp. Vanilla

Optional

Berries

Whipped Cream

This recipe is FANTASTIC! I will never make or buy another pound cake again when a recipe calls for one. This bundt cake is the perfect mixture of dense, moist and fluffy. Here is how I made this Kentucky Butter Cake.

I start with the dry ingredients. I mix the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda and whisk them together in a bowl and set aside.

I then take the butter, eggs, vanilla, and sugar and place them in my stand mixer and start to combine all the ingredients until well combined.

Then I combine the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Let them mix for about a minute. Then add your heavy cream/lemon juice mixture. I chose to go this route instead of the buttermilk because I felt the buttermilk was causing the cake to miss that little “OOMPF” that I really needed. You can most certainly try the buttermilk but the cream with the lemon juice was the way I prefer!

Now pour your batter into a VERY WELL GREASED AND FLOURED bundt cake pan. Bake the cake for 65-75 minutes at 350 degrees or until the cake is cooked all the way through.

Once the cake is baked, remove it from the oven and then start your glaze. I melt the butter and then combine the milk and vanilla.

Then whisk the powdered sugar into the milk, butter and vanilla.

While the cake is STILL HOT, take a chop stick or a handle of a wooden spoon and poke holes all over the cake.

Pour the glaze all over the cake and allow the holes to really get filled and suck up the glaze. Let the cake cool completely in the bundt cake pan before turning it out onto a platter.

I chose to make some berries to pour over the top of the cake. You can do this if you like. I love this cake for a strawberry short cake or really any type of berry mixture.

You can enjoy when the cake is ready to be handled and it is cooled and turned out of the pan.