Kentucky Bourbon Cake Recipes

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KENTUCKY BOURBON CAKE RECIPE



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A delicious Kentucky Bourbon Cake from the Taste of the 1800s cookbook.

Provided by Pam

Categories     Recipes

Time 2h

Number Of Ingredients 12

1 1/2 cups salted butter
2 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
2 cups granulated sugar
6 large eggs
5 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1' teaspoon nutmeg
2 cups bourbon
1 (16-ounce) package chopped pecans
To make the Glaze1 stick of butter
1 cup of sugar
1/4 cup to 1/2 cup bourbon

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Cream the butter in a large mixing bowl.Add 1 cup of granulated sugar and 1 1/4 cup of brown sugar. Beat until light and fluffy.
  • In a medium bowl, beat eggs then add the remaining sugar to the beaten eggs. Stir the egg mixture into the butter mixture.
  • Sift the flour. Add in the nutmeg and salt. Add the flour mixture to the sugar-butter mixture a little at a time, alternating with the bourbon. Mix until blended. Stir in the pecans.
  • Pour the batter into a greased 10-inch tube pan.Bake the cake for 1 1/2 hours or a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean.
  • While the cake is cooking, make the glaze.In a small saucepan, over high heat, melt the butter.Turn heat to medium and stir in sugar, until sugar is dissolved. Stir in the bourbon.
  • Stir continuously for 5 minutes or until the mixture has thickened. Set aside to cool. Allow the cake to cool on a wire rack. Pour glaze over cake.

Nutrition Facts :

KENTUCKY BOURBON CAKE



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Fruit cake soaked in whiskey. Should be made a month in advance, if you can wait that long (I can't!). You'll need some cheesecloth for giving this cake its trademark bourbon wrap.

Provided by Holly

Categories     Desserts     Fruit Dessert Recipes     Cherry Dessert Recipes

Yield 14

Number Of Ingredients 13

2 cups bourbon
8 ounces golden raisins
16 ounces red candied cherries, halved
¾ pound butter
2 cups white sugar
6 egg yolks
6 egg whites
2 cups packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking powder
5 cups all-purpose flour
1 pound chopped pecans
1 cup bourbon

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Grease a 10 inch tube pan and line bottom with parchment paper.
  • Soak raisins and cherries in 2 cups of bourbon or whiskey for 48 hours. Before making cake, drain well and reserve the bourbon.
  • In a separate bowl, mix flour, nutmeg and baking powder. Set aside.
  • In a small bowl, cream butter with the white sugar. In a separate small bowl, cream yolks and brown sugar until very light.
  • In a very large bowl, combine the two sugar mixtures and blend well.
  • Alternately add flour mixture and reserved bourbon in three stages, mixing well with each addition.
  • Add soaked fruit and fold in. Add nuts and fold in.
  • In a clean medium bowl, whip egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold into batter until evenly distributed.
  • Pour into prepared 10 inch tube pan. Place a pan of water in the bottom of the oven and bake for 4 to 5 hours at 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Ovens vary, so watch the baking time. Test cake with wooden pick. (May take longer than 5 hours).
  • Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out. When almost cool, brush sides and inside hole heavily with bourbon. Wrap cake with bourbon soaked cheesecloth, then with plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight and saturate again with bourbon. Cover with plastic wrap and then with foil and store for at least 2 weeks in a cool dry place.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 1076.8 calories, Carbohydrate 131.4 g, Cholesterol 140.1 mg, Fat 45.6 g, Fiber 5 g, Protein 11 g, SaturatedFat 15.4 g, Sodium 234.1 mg, Sugar 86.2 g

KENTUCKY BOURBON CAKE



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Make and share this Kentucky Bourbon Cake recipe from Food.com.

Provided by Theresa Thunderbird

Categories     Dessert

Time P2DT5h

Yield 1 cake, 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 12

2 cups Bourbon
1/2 lb golden raisin
1 lb candied red cherries, halved
1 1/2 cups butter
1 lb granulated sugar (2 1/4 cups)
6 eggs, separated
1 lb light brown sugar (2 1/4 cups)
2 teaspoons nutmeg (grated)
1 teaspoon baking powder
5 cups sifted flour
1 lb pecans, chopped
more Bourbon, to soak cake

Steps:

  • Pour 2 cups bourbon or whiskey over raisins and cherries.
  • Soak in covered container for 48 hours.
  • Before mixing in cake, drain well, reserve bourbon.
  • Soften butter at room temp.
  • cream until light.
  • Add sugar,beat until fluffy.
  • Beat egg yolks until very light, than add brown sugar.
  • Beat well to dissolve sugar.
  • In a very large bowl, combine the 2 sugar mixtures blend well.
  • Mix nutmeg baking powder with 4-1/2 cups flour.
  • Mix other 1/2 cup flour with nuts.
  • Add flour mixture alternately with bourbon to sugar,butter, egg mixture, mixing well after each addition.
  • Add soaked fruit, fold in, then add the nuts fold in.
  • Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry.
  • Fold into batter until evenly distributed.
  • Pour in greased 10" tube pan lined with greased brown paper.
  • Place a pan of water in bottom of oven.
  • Bake 4-5 hours at 275.
  • Test with toothpick about 2" from outer edge of cake.
  • May take longer than 5 hours.
  • Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out.
  • When almost cool, sponge sides inside hole heavily with bourbon-saturated cheesecloth.
  • Cover cake with this cloth, then in plastic wrap Let set overnight saturate again.
  • Recover tightly with plastic wrap.
  • Store at least 2 weeks.

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