Kentucky Lace Cakes Food

KENTUCKY BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
• In a large bowl, mix the flour, 2 cups sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Blend in buttermilk, 1 cup of butter, 2 teaspoons of vanilla and 4 eggs. Beat for 3 minutes at medium speed. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Prick holes in the still warm cake. Slowly pour sauce over cake. Let cake cool before removing from pan.
• To Make Butter Sauce: In a saucepan combine the remaining 3/4 cups sugar, 1/3 cup butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla, and the water. Cook over medium heat, until fully melted and combined, but do not boil.

KENTUCKY LACE EDGE CORN CAKES

Steps:

• Mix salt and baking soda thoroughly with meal. Mix egg well with buttermilk. Combine both mixtures and beat until smooth. Drop by tablespoons of batter onto a hot greased griddle. Bake until underside is brown (lift edge gently and peek). Then turn, but only once. Never pat or flatten the cakes with a turner. Stir batter well before dipping out each batch.

KENTUCKY FUNERAL CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Butter and flour a 9-inch springform pan.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
• In a bowl cream together the butter and sugar. Add the eggs one at a time and beat thoroughly. Fold in the flour mixture alternately with the milk. Stir in vanilla.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees and bake 60 to 70 minutes longer, until the cake is brown and a cake tester comes out clean. Cool on a rack for 10 minutes, then unmold and continue cooling.

KENTUCKY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Sift together self-rising flour, sugar and cinnamon.
• Add egg yolks, pineapple, oil and water.
• Mix well.
• Fold in egg whites and nuts.
• Pour into floured and greased bundt pan.
• Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
• Cool and remove from pan.
• Glaze: Combine butter, brown sugar and milk in saucepan.
• Bring to boil.
• Remove from heat and let cool 2 minutes.
• Brush over cooled cake.

KENTUCKY BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• To make batter: In a large beater bowl cream the butter.
• Gradually add the sugar; creaming until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs all at once and beat at HIGH until thick and creamy--at least 5 minutes.
• Add milk and blend thoroughly.
• NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE BUTTERMILK OR SOUR MILK ADD 2 TABLESPOONS OF VINEGAR TO A ONE CUP MEASURE THEN FILL TO ONE CUP.
• STIR AND LET SIT FOR 5 MINUTES.
• In a small bowl combine flour, salt, powder and soda.
• Add to batter all at once and beat for at least 10 minutes.
• Batter will be very thick and creamy.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Generously grease 10" inch bundt pan.
• Turn batter into pan.
• Bake at 325°F for 55-60 minutes until top springs back when touched lightly in center.
• Meanwhile prepare the butter sauce by combining the sugars, hot water and butter and stirring over low heat until butter is melted.
• Do not boil!
• Remove from heat and add vanilla.
• Let cake sit on a rack for 5 minutes after baking.
• Poke deep holes all over cake with a long skewer (a long knitting over crochet needle works well because they're thick).
• Pour warm butter sauce slowly over cake and letting it soak into holes and down between sides of cake and pan.
• Cool completely before removing from pan.
• If desired sprinkle with icing sugar before serving.

KENTUCKY GRIDDLE CAKES

Steps:

• Mix together the dry ingredients in one bowl, the wet ingredients in another bowl.
• Stir the wet into the dry using a wooden spoon, mixing just enough to blend- don't overmix; batter should be slightly lumpy.
• Heat a griddle,greased lightly with some additional oil or nonstick spray, over medium to medium-high heat until a drop of water sizzles when dropped onto the pan.
• Stir the batter again briefly (since it will have settled), and drop a scant 1/4 cupful of batter onto the pan for each cake.
• Cook until bubbles form and burst and the bottom is light brown, adjusting heat if needed to keep from burning bottoms.
• Flip over and cook the other side for 1-2 minutes, just until browned (if you touch it with your finger, no imprint will remain).
• NOTE: If batter is too thick, add a little more buttermilk.
• Serve with warm syrup.

KENTUCKY LACE CAKES

Steps:

• Combine the milk and vinegar in a bowl; set aside until the milk sours, about 5 minutes.
• Stir the egg, cornmeal, salt, and baking soda into the milk mixture until evenly mixed.
• Melt some of the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Pour 1/2 cup of the cornmeal mixture onto the skillet and cook until bubbles appear on the surface, 2 to 3 minutes. Flip with a spatula and cook until browned on the other side, 1 to 2 minutes more. Repeat until all batter is used.

KENTUCKY BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
• In a large bowl, mix the flour, 2 cups sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
• Blend in buttermilk, 1 cup of butter, 2 teaspoons of vanilla and 4 eggs.
• Beat for 3 minutes at medium speed.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean.
• Prick holes in the still warm cake.
• Slowly pour sauce over cake.
• Let cake cool before removing from pan.
• To Make Butter Sauce: In a saucepan combine the remaining 3/4 cups sugar, 1/3 cup butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla, and the water.
• Cook over medium heat, until fully melted and combined, but do not boil.

KENTUCKY LACE CAKES

Steps:

• Combine the milk and vinegar in a bowl; set aside until the milk sours, about 5 minutes.
• Stir the egg, cornmeal, salt, and baking soda into the milk mixture until evenly mixed.
• Melt some of the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Pour 1/2 cup of the cornmeal mixture onto the skillet and cook until bubbles appear on the surface, 2 to 3 minutes. Flip with a spatula and cook until browned on the other side, 1 to 2 minutes more. Repeat until all batter is used.

KENTUCKY LACE CAKES

Steps:

• Combine the milk and vinegar in a bowl; set aside until the milk sours, about 5 minutes.
• Stir the egg, cornmeal, salt, and baking soda into the milk mixture until evenly mixed.
• Melt some of the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Pour 1/2 cup of the cornmeal mixture onto the skillet and cook until bubbles appear on the surface, 2 to 3 minutes. Flip with a spatula and cook until browned on the other side, 1 to 2 minutes more. Repeat until all batter is used.

KENTUCKY CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Combine sugar and flour in bowl.
• Melt butter, shortening, water, and cocoa powder and brink to a boil.
• Pour mixture over sugar and flour.
• Stir well.
• Add remaining ingrdeients and stir until smooth.
• Pour into two greased and floured layer cake pans.
• Bake at 325 for twenty-five to thirty minutes.
• Cool thoroughly before frosting.

ONE-BOWL KENTUCKY BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan or a 12-cup bundt pan.
• In a large bowl combine all cake ingredients; beat on low speed until moistened, then beat for another 3 minutes at medium speed.
• Pour the batter into prepared pan.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes or until cake tests done.
• For the butter sauce; in a saucepan, over low heat combine all sauce ingredients; cook just until the butter melts, stirring occasionally (do not boil).
• When cake is done remove from oven and pierce all over cake with a large fork or a long thin straw; pour the sauce all over the warm cake.
• Let stand 5 minutes, or until sauce is absorbed.