Bourbon Barrel Cake Recipe

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.

Bourbon barrel cake recipe.

If i don t have buttermilk or any milk can i use water or more brandy. When almost cool brush sides and inside hole heavily with bourbon. Soak in covered container for 48 hours. Before mixing in cake drain well reserve bourbon.

We use seven year aged kentucky bourbon to give a very unique nutty and maple flavor. 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. Michelle may 27 2017 9 54 pm. 7 year aged kentucky bourbon is used to give the cake a uniquely nutty maple flavor.

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. Add sugar beat until fluffy. Pour 2 cups bourbon or whiskey over raisins and cherries. Soften butter at room temp.

All of bourbon barrel foods products incorporate innovative uses of bourbon barrels and are crafted with care in small batches. 5 brendathurman may 27 2017 7 37 pm reply. Butter and flour the inside of a large 10 cup bundt pan. 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.

1 preheat oven prepare bundt pan. This moist brown sugar cake is made with pure maple and chocolate and topped with walnuts chocolate and caramel bourbon icing. Beat egg yolks until very light than add brown sugar. Melt chocolate in a microwave oven or in a double boiler over simmering water let cool.

It s so buttery and moist and it is bursting with bourbon flavor. Preheat oven to 325 f. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out. Test cake with wooden pick.

May take longer than 5 hours. A good bourbon cake recipe is one of those things that s handed down from generation to generation here in the south. As the recipe spread outside its native region in the 1940s the name frequently became kentucky bourbon cake and kentucky whiskey cake. Wrap cake with bourbon soaked cheesecloth then with plastic wrap.

Other than that best recipe for bourbon cake i have found so far. The original kentucky woods cake is the one and only bourbon barrel cake. Put a cup of water on to boil.