Easy Kentucky Butter Cake | Cookies and cups

This Kentucky Butter Cake recipe is crazy moist, buttery and coated with a sweet buttery sauce that crusts the outside and soaks into the cake making it amazing for days. What you get is a stunning, sweet, buttery, soft cake that is as perfect on its own as it is topped with strawberries and whipped cream!

Kentucky Butter Cake: What to Expect

• Simple ingredients. Chances are you have everything in your kitchen right now to make this incredibly delicious cake.
• Great to take forward! I'm going to tell you this Kentucky Butter Cake is even better the second day! This gives the cake a chance to absorb all the sugar syrup while relaxing a bit and settling all its moisture. Of course it can be enjoyed on the same day, but if you have the patience, give it a day to become its best self!
• the taste. While at heart, it's just a butter cake, the way all the flavors combine with the butter sugar syrup makes it extra vanilla, and gives it a bit of a crunch. Kind of like a giant glazed donut.
• So many serving options! Serve it with whipped cream and strawberries for the best strawberry shortcake of your life!

What is Kentucky Butter Cake?

Kentucky Butter is the most delicious vanilla pound cake You will ever. The texture is dense, but tender and it's topped with a ridiculous butter/sugar/vanilla sauce that soaks into the cake and leaves the top crisp and sweet. Perfect on its own with a cup of coffee, ice cream or whipped cream and strawberries. The possibilities are endless.

Materials / What you will need

As I said above, this cake recipe is made with simple ingredients, so I recommend using high quality ingredients. Flavor cake making! Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of this post on the recipe card for the full ingredient list and instructions.

• butter. I use salted butter in this recipe, but you can also use unsalted if you have it on hand or prefer it. You use butter in both the cake and the butter glaze.
• Sugar: Use granulated sugar in the cake batter and butter glaze, and I also use powdered sugar to decorate the cake when done!
• the egg. Use large eggs in this recipe as well as all my baking recipes unless otherwise stated.
• Vanilla extract. You can also use vanilla bean paste if you have that too. Vanilla bean paste will make the cake and syrup a little darker because of the vanilla bean.
• dry Materials: All Purpose Flour, Baking Soda, Baking powderand kosher salt.
• Buttermilk. use Buttermilk This recipe makes the cake tender. If you don't have buttermilk, you can easily make it at home. use my Homemade Buttermilk Recipe!

How to Make Kentucky Butter Cake

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Prepare the pan: Make sure you grease yours heavily Bundle pan. You can use baking spray/nonstick spray, or you can coat it with butter or shortening and dust with flour or powdered sugar. You need to make sure that your pan is generously greased because not only will the cake stick, but the sugar syrup can also stick.

Tip: If you are using nonstick baking spray, I recommend that you spray it before adding the batter I find that this trick helps prevent more sticking than spraying the pan and letting it sit before adding the cake batter.

The batter goes together easily and all the ingredients can be added at the same time just like you would for a cake mix. This cake is pretty foolproof!

Once the cake is baked, make the sugar syrup. Cook the butter, sugar, vanilla and some water together until the sugar dissolves, but does not come to a boil.

Poke holes all int he warm cake and then pour the sugar sauce allover! Allow the cake pan to cool completely. You can even let it sit in the pan overnight, running a butter knife around the edges to help the cake stick.

Suggestion:

1. Make sure your butter is completely at room temperature so you don't get any lumps! As you mix everything together at the same time the butter needs to be mixed well. If your butter isn't quite at room temperature, mix it with granulated sugar to combine and then add all the other ingredients.
2. Let the bundt cake cool completely in the pan to give the sauce time to soak up. You can even leave the cake in the pan overnight if you want! The longer the cake sits the better!
3. When time is up, flip the cake out of the pan and loosen the edges of the cake with a butter knife to help the process along.
4. Dusting it with powdered sugar not only makes it look pretty, but helps hide any imperfections in the cake.

Serving Ideas:

The slices are perfect, the flavor is perfect, and you'll probably eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dessert until it's gone!

• It's perfect because it's on its own!
• With fresh fruit and whipped cream!
• Warm with a scoop of ice cream
• Use any leftover slices for French toast!

Variation:

• Add 1/2 teaspoon almond extract to add a little different flavor!
• Use bourbon or rum in the glass instead of water to give it a boozy twist!
• Add mini Chocolate chip If you love chocolate!

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This recipe was originally posted in 2015, but has been updated with new tips in 2024!

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