Bourbon Barrel Cake Recipe

Put a cup of water on to boil.

Bourbon barrel cake recipe.

Butter and flour the inside of a large 10 cup bundt pan. The original kentucky woods cake is the one and only bourbon barrel cake. As the recipe spread outside its native region in the 1940s the name frequently became kentucky bourbon cake and kentucky whiskey cake. Beat egg yolks until very light than add brown sugar.

Before mixing in cake drain well reserve bourbon. Soften butter at room temp. Add sugar beat until fluffy. We use seven year aged kentucky bourbon to give a very unique nutty and maple flavor.

Soak in covered container for 48 hours. 1 preheat oven prepare bundt pan. I found this unusual bourbon pecan pound cake in one of my early 20th century cookbooks with a hastily scrawled star next to the title in faded blue ink. If i don t have buttermilk or any milk can i use water or more brandy.

5 brendathurman may 27 2017 7 37 pm reply. Established in 2006 as the u s s only soy sauce microbrewery bourbon barrel foods has become a cornerstone in both the bourbon and gourmet foods industries. Michelle may 27 2017 9 54 pm. Beat well to dissolve sugar.

Other than that best recipe for bourbon cake i have found so far. This moist brown sugar cake is made with pure maple and chocolate and topped with walnuts chocolate and caramel bourbon icing. 7 year aged kentucky bourbon is used to give the cake a uniquely nutty maple flavor. When almost cool brush sides and inside hole heavily with bourbon.

It s so buttery and moist and it is bursting with bourbon flavor. Test cake with wooden pick. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out. A good bourbon cake recipe is one of those things that s handed down from generation to generation here in the south.

Preheat oven to 325 f. Wrap cake with bourbon soaked cheesecloth then with plastic wrap. Our original kentucky woods cake is the original one and only bourbon barrel cake and is a moist brown sugar cake with pure maple and chocolate cake topped with walnuts chocolate and caramel bourbon icing. A prevalent 1943 advertisement for aunt martha s whiskey cake actually made in pennsylvania 2 75 for a 1 lb 10 oz loaf boasted epicurean gift made from an 1820 recipe and there s a quart of quality bourbon in every six pounds.

2 2 3 cups all purpose flour 3 4 cup granulated sugar 1 3 cup light brown sugar 1 4 cup dutch process cocoa powder. May take longer than 5 hours. Pour 2 cups bourbon or whiskey over raisins and cherries.