About this Recipe

This Kentucky Butter Cake recipe is out of this world. Rich and moist with just the perfect amount of sweetness. With one of the main ingredients being butter, this cake recipe has plenty of fat making it a denser cake, but it's still perfectly moist at the same time. This recipe is based on the classic vanilla cake or pound cake which is named that because there is a pound of each ingredient in the classic cake recipe. But as the cake recipe evolved, they were able to reduce the amounts of the ingredients while keeping the same delicious flavour.

The best baking recipes use butter, of course, and this recipe is no different. So when you're choosing the butter for this cake make sure you go with the full-fat butter, don't skimp on the fat for this recipe since it may not turn out just right. If you can find some, you may also want to use organic, fresh butter from an organic farm since it tends to have a richer, deeper flavour profile.

Since it's one of the main ingredients in this cake recipe, you may as well use the good stuff. The buttermilk in this recipe also adds even more to the flavour of this cake and makes it even richer than you could imagine. The silky smooth buttermilk adds a nice bit of zesty flavour to the cake that would be almost unrecognizable if you weren't expecting it.

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It's also great that you can substitute out the buttermilk for some regular milk with some lemon juice. Just in case you don't have any buttermilk on hand or you don't want to buy a full carton just to use a bit for this recipe. Although, you can use buttermilk for other dessert recipes and other general recipes as well. It's a great addition for sauces and dessert recipes like cakes and squares. The cake is baked in a bundt pan which makes for perfect sized pieces of cake, nice and thick, with a thicker soft crust outside that holds a lot of the buttery flavour.

For the topping, this cake can either be served with a simple glaze made from butter, sugar, water and vanilla. It's even more delicious when you poke some holes in the cake when it's still a bit warm and then drizzle the glaze all over the cake, so it seeps into the holes. That way, when you're eating it, you'll get a nice taste of creamy glaze with each bite of cake. The other topping option is to make a buttercream frosting which would also be delicious but would make for a doubly rich cake. The richness of the cake could also lend well to fruit toppings like strawberries or mixed berries, and a whipped topping or some fresh cream poured over the top of a single slice. The options are endless.

This cake also keeps well and tastes just as great the next day or the day after. Store it in the fridge, and it will still taste good a few days later. You could even prepare it a day ahead for an event or a dinner, and no one would know the difference. It would be best to keep it in a air tight container though or wrap it in some food wrap to keep all of that nice moisture in the cake. A cake recipe like this is great for any occasion whether it be a birthday, Easter, Christmas or just for a nice treat after dinner on any day of the year.

It's a very versatile cake that can be dressed up however you like it, and that will look like you spend hours creating it, even though it requires very little work and is a very simple cake recipe to make. Serve this cake with some bitter tea like green or black tea to offset the sweetness of the cake and to balance blood sugar out a bit.

Enjoy the recipe here: Kentucky Butter Cake