Bourbon Barrel Cake Recipe

Wrap cake with bourbon soaked cheesecloth then with plastic wrap.

Bourbon barrel cake recipe.

Put a cup of water on to boil. Soften butter at room temp. May take longer than 5 hours. Beat egg yolks until very light than add brown sugar.

Pour 2 cups bourbon or whiskey over raisins and cherries. 1 preheat oven prepare bundt pan. Soak in covered container for 48 hours. Melt chocolate in a microwave oven or in a double boiler over simmering water let cool.

5 brendathurman may 27 2017 7 37 pm reply. We use seven year aged kentucky bourbon to give a very unique nutty and maple flavor. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out. 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.

This moist brown sugar cake is made with pure maple and chocolate and topped with walnuts chocolate and caramel bourbon icing. If i don t have buttermilk or any milk can i use water or more brandy. A good bourbon cake recipe is one of those things that s handed down from generation to generation here in the south. Michelle may 27 2017 9 54 pm.

When almost cool brush sides and inside hole heavily with bourbon. All of bourbon barrel foods products incorporate innovative uses of bourbon barrels and are crafted with care in small batches. Beat well to dissolve sugar. 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.

7 year aged kentucky bourbon is used to give the cake a uniquely nutty maple flavor. Other than that best recipe for bourbon cake i have found so far. Test cake with wooden pick. 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.

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. 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. 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.

It s so buttery and moist and it is bursting with bourbon flavor. Butter and flour the inside of a large 10 cup bundt pan. Before mixing in cake drain well reserve bourbon.