Bourbon Barrel Cake Recipe

Pour 2 cups bourbon or whiskey over raisins and cherries.

Bourbon barrel cake recipe.

As the recipe spread outside its native region in the 1940s the name frequently became kentucky bourbon cake and kentucky whiskey cake. Melt chocolate in a microwave oven or in a double boiler over simmering water let cool. Wrap cake with bourbon soaked cheesecloth then with plastic wrap. It s so buttery and moist and it is bursting with bourbon flavor.

5 brendathurman may 27 2017 7 37 pm reply. Soften butter at room temp. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out. Test cake with wooden pick.

Add sugar beat until fluffy. 7 year aged kentucky bourbon is used to give the cake a uniquely nutty maple flavor. Preheat oven to 325 f. A good bourbon cake recipe is one of those things that s handed down from generation to generation here in the south.

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

Beat well to dissolve sugar. Michelle may 27 2017 9 54 pm. Refrigerate overnight and saturate again with bourbon. 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. 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. Beat egg yolks until very light than add brown sugar. Before mixing in cake drain well reserve bourbon.

All of bourbon barrel foods products incorporate innovative uses of bourbon barrels and are crafted with care in small batches. 1 preheat oven prepare bundt pan. 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.

Soak in covered container for 48 hours. We use seven year aged kentucky bourbon to give a very unique nutty and maple flavor. Butter and flour the inside of a large 10 cup bundt pan.