Kentucky Butter Cake is an insanely moist pound cake with a sweet, buttery sauce that soaks through the cake. This cake tastes even better the next day!

Kentucky Butter Cake

Kentucky Butter Cake Recipe

This Kentucky Butter Cake isn’t overly sweet and has plenty of butter flavor. It is the perfect cake to snack on while sipping a cup of coffee or tea. This is a typical pound cake type recipe with a dense texture, but not too dense. It’s easy to make from ingredients you likely have on hand.

All the ingredients get mixed together using a stand mixer, then the batter is poured into a Bundt pan and baked for about an hour.

While it’s still warm, you poke holes in the cake and let a delicious butter sauce seep down into the cake. The outside gets a little buttery and crispy and the inside is so buttery and moist.

Kentucky Butter Cake is a pound cake type cake that is so moist and delicious

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How To Store

This cake can be stored at room temperature for 4 to 5 days. Kentucky Butter Cake freezes really well. Just wrap it well in plastic wrap and then in foil.

Kentucky Butter Cake with a sweet buttery glaze

You’ll like this cake so much, you’ll be making an excuse to eat it first thing in the morning for breakfast. And it probably doesn’t need to be said, but this cake makes a wonderful dessert for a Kentucky Derby Party.

If you are a fan of bourbon, check out this Kentucky Bourbon Butter Cake. It’s another amazing butter cake recipe.

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Kentucky Butter Cake recipe
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Kentucky Butter Cake

4.94 from 47 votes
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 1 hour
Total: 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 16
Kentucky Butter Cake is an insanely moist pound cake with a sweet, buttery sauce that soaks through the cake. This cake tastes even better the next day!
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Ingredients

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Butter Sauce

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease and flour a Bundt pan or use baking spray with flour.
  • Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
  • Using an electric stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar for about 5 minutes.
  • Mix in eggs one at a time.
  • Add the vanilla to the buttermilk.
  • Add flour mixture to butter mixture., alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
  • Pour batter into Bundt pan and bake for 60 minutes.
  • Make butter sauce when you are getting ready to take cake out of the oven. Bring sugar, water, and butter to a low boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
  • After cake is removed from oven, poke holes in the top and pour the butter mixture down into holes. Let cake cool for about 10 minutes and then remove from pan. Don’t let it cool much longer before removing from pan or it will stick. 

Notes

Chop sticks or a wooden skewer is perfect for poking the holes.
Nutritional info is provided as an estimate only and will vary based on brands of products used. Not to be used for specific dietary needs.

Nutrition

Calories: 412kcal | Carbohydrates: 56g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 94mg | Sodium: 377mg | Potassium: 70mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 38g | Vitamin A: 624IU | Calcium: 48mg | Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Recipe Source: AllRecipes.com

Originally posted February 26, 2018.

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90 Comments

  1. Sharon Noland says:

    I’ve made this cake several times because it’s one of the best cakes I’ve ever had!!! Everyone loves it!!!

  2. Teresa Moore says:

    How much of the sauce do you use?

  3. Angela Reed says:

    Has anyone baked this using an alternate flavoring…like almond?

    1. Michelle jenkins says:

      I was going to try the almond but I think I will use alcohol instead. I usually make a jack Daniels cake so this should work too

  4. Erin says:

    I made this vegan by using Bob’s Red Mill Egg Replacer, cashew milk instead of buttermilk, and vegan butter and it turned out really well! I would definitely make this again.

  5. Tina Williams says:

    What kind of butter is best to use? Salted or unsalted?

    1. Cathy A. says:

      Unsalted for baking. That way, you can control how much salt to use; most cake and cookie recipes require a little bit of salt added.

  6. Mabel Garcia says:

    I’ve made this cake on several occasions now and it never disappoints! Love it

  7. Mary Herrin says:

    By far, my family’s favorite pound cake!

  8. Ayesha Mir says:

    Recipe is just perfect ! Yup u are right so good that We really had it first thing in the morning !!! ๐Ÿ˜˜

  9. Kiara says:

    Will heating it back up in the oven after its done affect the flavor? I wanna put a thin layer of cream cheese topping on it

    1. Capt obvious says:

      Just heat the cream cheese

    2. Capt obvious says:

      Why are you adding anything to this amazing cake?!?! Itโ€™s like adding water color from the dollar store to the Mona Lisa.

  10. Christin says:

    Absolutely delicious!