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Recipe Kentucky Bourbon Cake (Cake)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 2 cups bourbon
- 8 ounces golden raisins
- 16 ounces red candied cherries, halved
- 3/4 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
Preparing/Cooking:
- 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.
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