Bourbon Barrel Cake Recipe

Melt chocolate in a microwave oven or in a double boiler over simmering water let cool.

Bourbon barrel cake recipe.

Test cake with wooden pick. Soak in covered container for 48 hours. As the recipe spread outside its native region in the 1940s the name frequently became kentucky bourbon cake and kentucky whiskey cake. Put a cup of water on to boil.

We use seven year aged kentucky bourbon to give a very unique nutty and maple flavor. 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. 7 year aged kentucky bourbon is used to give the cake a uniquely nutty maple flavor.

Beat well to dissolve sugar. Butter and flour the inside of a large 10 cup bundt pan. This moist brown sugar cake is made with pure maple and chocolate and topped with walnuts chocolate and caramel bourbon icing. Michelle may 27 2017 9 54 pm.

When almost cool brush sides and inside hole heavily with bourbon. 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. All of bourbon barrel foods products incorporate innovative uses of bourbon barrels and are crafted with care in small batches. Pour 2 cups bourbon or whiskey over raisins and cherries.

Other than that best recipe for bourbon cake i have found so far. Soften butter at room temp. Before mixing in cake drain well reserve bourbon. 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.

Wrap cake with bourbon soaked cheesecloth then with plastic wrap. A good bourbon cake recipe is one of those things that s handed down from generation to generation here in the south. Preheat oven to 325 f. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out.

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. Refrigerate overnight and saturate again with bourbon. It s so buttery and moist and it is bursting with bourbon 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.

5 brendathurman may 27 2017 7 37 pm reply. If i don t have buttermilk or any milk can i use water or more brandy. Add sugar beat until fluffy.