Oh yes 😍 Kentucky Butter Cake—rich, buttery, and tender, with a sweet buttery glaze that soaks the cake just right. It’s basically the ultimate comfort dessert.
🍰 Kentucky Butter Cake
Ingredients
For the Cake:
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
For the Butter Glaze:
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and flour a 10-inch bundt pan (or 9×13 pan).
- Mix dry ingredients: Flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Cream butter and sugar: Beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, then vanilla.
- Alternate adding flour and buttermilk: Start and end with flour mixture. Mix until smooth.
- Bake: Pour batter into pan and bake 50–60 minutes (check with toothpick).
- Make glaze while cake bakes: Melt butter, brown sugar, and milk in a small saucepan. Simmer 2–3 minutes, remove from heat, stir in vanilla.
- Glaze cake: When cake comes out of the oven, poke small holes in the top with a skewer and pour glaze evenly over the warm cake.
- Cool slightly, then serve. Optionally dust with powdered sugar.
Tips & Variations:
- Extra buttery: Brush the glaze slowly so it soaks in evenly.
- Pan choice: Bundt pan is classic, but 9×13 works too.
- Serving: Great with vanilla ice cream or fresh berries.
- Make-ahead: Keeps well 2–3 days at room temp, or refrigerate for up to a week.
This cake is rich, moist, and sticky-sweet—basically Southern heaven in a slice 😋.
If you want, I can give a mini cupcake version or a quick skillet version that’s faster but still buttery-delicious.
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