Bourbon Barrel Cake Recipe

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Bourbon barrel cake recipe.

May take longer than 5 hours. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out. Soften butter at room temp. 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.

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. We use seven year aged kentucky bourbon to give a very unique nutty and maple flavor. 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. Pour 2 cups bourbon or whiskey over raisins and cherries.

Before mixing in cake drain well reserve bourbon. Refrigerate overnight and saturate again with bourbon. As the recipe spread outside its native region in the 1940s the name frequently became kentucky bourbon cake and kentucky whiskey cake. Test cake with wooden pick.

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. 5 brendathurman may 27 2017 7 37 pm reply. It s so buttery and moist and it is bursting with bourbon flavor.

Wrap cake with bourbon soaked cheesecloth then with plastic wrap. 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. A good bourbon cake recipe is one of those things that s handed down from generation to generation here in the south. 1 preheat oven prepare bundt pan.

Beat well to dissolve sugar. All of bourbon barrel foods products incorporate innovative uses of bourbon barrels and are crafted with care in small batches. Melt chocolate in a microwave oven or in a double boiler over simmering water let cool. Butter and flour the inside of a large 10 cup bundt pan.

If i don t have buttermilk or any milk can i use water or more brandy. This moist brown sugar cake is made with pure maple and chocolate and topped with walnuts chocolate and caramel bourbon icing. The original kentucky woods cake is the one and only bourbon barrel cake. Michelle may 27 2017 9 54 pm.

Add sugar beat until fluffy. Put a cup of water on to boil. Beat egg yolks until very light than add brown sugar.