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Auntie Laurie's Kentucky Butter Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Heat oven to 350. For 55 - 70 minutes
Cake Ingredients
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
4 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
2 sticks butter, softened
2 tsp vanilla or rum extract
Butter Sauce
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter
3 Tbsp water
2 tsp vanilla or rum extract






Directions:
Directions:
Generously grease and lightly flour a 12 cup tube pan.
Mix butter and vanilla until creamy. Add sugar and beat well until smooth.
Add eggs. Add dry ingredients and moisten with buttermilk a little at a time.
(If you use dry buttermilk, add to dry ingredients and use 1 cup of water to moisten
the batter.) Once you have added all the buttermilk (water), beat 4 minutes. Pour
into a 12 cup tube pan.

Two minutes before the cake comes out of the oven, make the butter sauce. Put all
Ingredients for the sauce in a small pan let it come to a boil until nice & syrupy.
Mix well. Use a long-tine fork poke holes in the cake all over. Slowly pour sauce
over the cake and in the holes. Let soak in for 10 minutes. Flip the cake onto a cooling
Rack. Let cake cool and sprinkle with confectioner sugar.






Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
8

 

 

 

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