• Home
  • About
    • New? Start Here
    • My Life
    • Press
    • Contact
    • LEGAL
  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • Appetizers
    • Beverages
    • Big Daddy’s Dish
    • Breads
    • Breakfast
    • College Student Recipes
    • Desserts
      • Cobblers
      • Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed
    • Dressings & Sauces
    • Entree
      • Beef
      • Pasta
      • Pork
      • Seafood
      • Poultry
    • Encore
    • Healthy
    • Recipe Collections
    • Salads
    • Sandwiches
    • side dishes
    • Soup
    • Snacks
  • Resources
  • Extras
    • Crafts/DIY
    • Fit & Fab
    • Housekeeping
    • Travel
    • Local Eats
    • View My Instagram
    • Videos
  • Shop
    • SHOP MY FAVORITES
    • PHOTOGRAPHY ESSENTIALS
    • Amazon Favorites
    • Kitchen
    • Home + Candles
    • Shop Beauty Favs
    • Shop Gift Ideas
  • Recipe Box
  • Stay up to date. Subscribe to receive blog updates in your email inbox.

Call Me PMc

Cooking. Creating. Sharing

KENTUCKY BUTTER SAUCE POUND CAKE

Nov.posted by Paula 9 Comments

Jump to Recipe

Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake, crazy moist and buttery, this cake is delicious. It’s definitely a winner and a recipe you’ll want to keep.

Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake, crazy moist and buttery, this cake is delicious. It's definitely a winner and a recipe you'll want to keep.

 

Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake is different than most other pound cakes I’ve tested in my Pound Cake Series. This cake does not have the dense, fine texture that most traditional pound cakes have. Instead, it is more like a sponge cake with a light, fluffy texture.

Pound cakes are my favorite dessert to bake. You can get all of my pound cake recipes here, Pound Cakes Reviewed.

As well, I wrote this detailed post on Bake the Perfect Pound Cake that I highly recommend you read. Even if you bake often, there is good information.

I recommend this TUBE PAN. I find the cake releases better from a tube pan. Or, this BUNDT PAN. It’s deeper than a regular bundt pan.

Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake, crazy moist and buttery, this cake is delicious. It's definitely a winner and a recipe you'll want to keep.

 

One of the most important tips is to Calibrate your oven.

Additionally, you must measure the flour accurately. Therefore, I recommend you hop over and read this post, scroll down under ‘Tips’.

Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake

Furthermore, because of the glaze that poured onto the cake while hot allowing the sauce to seep into the cake, this cake is very moist. It reminds me a lot of a Tres Leche Cake or a bread pudding. Now, don’t get me wrong, that’s a good thing. This is a very good cake and one that I will make over and over again. It’s just not your typical (traditional) pound cake.

Sometimes less is more and this is a tasty, basic cake that’s good served plain, with vanilla ice cream and chocolate or caramel sauce, or with fresh fruit.

Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake, crazy moist and buttery, this cake is delicious. It's definitely a winner and a recipe you'll want to keep.

 

How do you make a pound cake?

  1. All your cold ingredients need to be at room temperature.
  2. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. The color will a pale yellow. You must use real butter. Margarine will not have the same results.
  3. Next, mix in the room temperature eggs one at a time until they disappear into the batter.
  4. If your recipe has baking powder and salt, sift it in with the flour.
  5. The next step is to add the room temperature buttermilk alternately with the flour until mixed together and smooth. Room temperature ingredients are a must for a fluffy cake.
  6. As well, add any flavoring to the batter.
  7. Pour the batter into a well greased baking pan. I prefer using a solid vegetable shortening to grease my tube pan followed with a sprinkle of granulated sugar.
  8. Finally, bake until cooked through. You can test for doneness by inserting a wooden pick into the thickest part of the cake. The cake is done with no crumbs or dry crumbs remain on the pick.

 

TRY THESE!!

Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe is tender and moist. It's sweet and simple with a buttery flavoring that melts in your mouth!
Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Real Fruit Strawberry Buttermilk Pound Cake (No Jello or Kool-Aid) recipe is a delightful strawberry pound cake made with condensed fresh strawberries. Fresh Strawberry Pound Cake. Strawberry Pound cake #strawberry #strawberrypoundcake #poundcake #cake #dessert #Southern #traditional #classic #moist #easy
Fresh Strawberry Pound Cake with no jello or kool aid
Amaretto Pineapple Upside Down Pound Cake recipe is an elevated take on an American classic. A moist pineapple upside-down cake joins a buttery pound cake for a spectacular dessert.
Amaretto Pineapple Upside Down Pound Cake

Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake, crazy moist and buttery, this cake is delicious. It's definitely a winner and a recipe you'll want to keep.

Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake

Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake, crazy moist and buttery, this cake is delicious. It's definitely a winner and a recipe you'll want to keep.
Author: Paula
5 from 8 votes
Print Pin Rate

Want to save recipes? Create an account or login & then you can use the “Save Recipe” button when viewing a recipe to save it to your Recipe Box. You can access your saved recipes on any device and generate a shopping list for recipes in your collections.

Save To Your Recipe Box Go to your saved recipes
Prevent your screen from going dark
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings: 12 servings

Equipment

  • electric mixer

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 5 large eggs at room temperature
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup buttermilk at room temperature
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Glaze

  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 6 tablespoon butter
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease a (10-inch, 12 cup) bundt or tube pan with solid vegetable shortening and sprinkle with sugar (or you can use flour). Alternately, you can use Wilton Cake Release.
  • Cream the butter and sugar with a mixer until fluffy and light in color.
  • Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
  • In a small bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
  • Add flour mixture alternatively with the buttermilk beginning and ending with flour.
  • Mix until just combined.
  • Stir in vanilla.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
  • Bake at 325 degrees F for 60 to 65 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in thickest part comes out clean or with dry crumbs.
  • Start glaze during the last 5 to 10 minutes of cooking time.
  • In a saucepan, combine the 3/4 cup sugar, 6 tablespoon butter, and 1/4 cup water.
  • Cook over medium heat until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved. Do not boil.
  • Add vanilla to the mixture after it is removed from the heat source. 
  • Remove cake from oven.
  • Immediately poke holes in cake with a long skewer.
  • Pour hot glaze over cake and allow it to soak into the cake.
  • Loosen the cake from the pan with a knife while it still hot, but do not remove the cake until it is cooled. (It can be slightly warm but not hot or you risk it falling apart.)

Nutrition

Calories: 522kcal | Carbohydrates: 71g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 126mg | Sodium: 473mg | Potassium: 124mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 47g | Vitamin A: 780IU | Calcium: 59mg | Iron: 1.8mg
Tried this recipe?Please take a moment to comment letting me know how you liked it & consider giving it a 5 star rating. I love hearing from you!
Do you have questions about the saving recipes to your Recipe Box?Visit Recipe Box FAQ!

You may also enjoy these recipes

Old Fashion Butter Roll
 
Old Fashion Southern Favorite Butter Roll dessert

 Sticky Toffee Date Cake
Sticky Toffee Date Cake

Snickers Bars Cinnamon Rolls

Snickers Bar Cinnamon Rolls

Snickerdoodle Cobbler

Snickerdoodle Cobbler

 Caramel Cobbler

Caramel Cobbler

For more scrumptious recipes, fun projects, and exciting news, subscribe to Call Me PMc
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Bloglovin’

 my Pound Cake series

Two Step fresh Peach Pound Cake

Mile High Pound Cake

Million Dollar Pound Cake

click photo below for all the pound cake recipes

The big pound cake review

You can also find great recipes at Recipe Index or Weekend Potluck

This post contains affiliate links. If you click the link and make a purchase I will receive a small commission at no cost to you. Visit all my recommended products at Paula’s Picks on Amazon. Read my entire Privacy Policy here.

Paula
« Raspberry Streusel Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
Leftover Turkey Bruschetta Slider with Balsamic Mayonnaise »

Comments

  1. Scarlet says

    06.03.21 at 9:34 am

    5 stars
    So rich and flavorful. The buttermilk gives the pound cake a tiny bit of a tang is is good with the sweetness.

    Reply
  2. Sarah says

    06.03.21 at 9:23 am

    5 stars
    I made this for teacher gifts this year! I printed out the recipe to give the teachers so they can make it again. GREAT cake!

    Reply
  3. Michelle says

    03.31.18 at 9:50 pm

    Wanted ro make the Kentucky butter sauce pound cake but I forgot to buy buttermilk, can I use sour cream instead?

    Reply
    • Paula says

      04.04.18 at 11:19 am

      Yes, you can

      Reply
  4. MB says

    12.27.17 at 3:02 am

    I made this cake for Christmas Day dessert. Used a Wilton brand pan. It looked very good and tasted good. I buttered bundt pan well. It wouldn’t come out of bundt pan. Tried 4 hours to see if it would drop. My assessment is the syrup makes it stick to pan. Anyone have a solution to this issue? I just cut pieces out of the pan at the table for 8 people in attendance. It would have looked pretty if I could’ve served inverted.

    Reply
    • Ruby says

      03.28.21 at 11:31 am

      I would suggest to butter then coat with flour and invert it while cake is still warm. Don’t wait for it to cool as the sugar would have hardened by then. Maybe set aside around 3 tablespoon of the butter and use a pastry brush to paint over the top of the cake afterwards to ensure a glossy top?

      Reply
  5. Deby says

    08.19.17 at 4:03 pm

    I’m getting ready to make the glaze for this butter pound cake, and I just noticed that it says vanilla in the glaze, but it doesn’t say when to add it…do I stir it into the glaze after it has cooked?

    Reply
    • Paula says

      08.20.17 at 3:32 pm

      Yes, add it preferably at the end after it comes off the heat. I’ll get that corrected.

      Reply
  6. sanovia Edwards says

    12.15.16 at 12:45 am

    I just bake the million dollar pound cake.and my husband love it…..I will be baking other cakes…thank you.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Your email address will not be published. Have you tried this recipe? Consider giving it 5 stars!




The Big Pound Cake Review

60 pound cake recipes

Featured Categories

  • Appetizers
  • Beverages
  • Breakfast
  • Desserts
  • Entrees
  • Side Dishes
  • College Student Recipes

Search specific recipes

Search specific recipes

Archives

White Chocolate CrockPot Candy | Call Me PMc

WHITE CHOCOLATE CROCKPOT CANDY

chocolate bars

BEST FUDGY COCOA BROWNIES

chocolate dessert

ONE BOWL BROWNIES 9×13

Dark Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie Cheesecake

DARK CHOCOLATE BOURBON PECAN PIE CHEESECAKE

Favorites

Mexican beef dinner

QUESABIRRIA STACK {Cheese Birrias Taco Stack}

Beef Birria Stack | Call Me PMc

BEEF BIRRIA STACK

roasted meal

ROASTED LEMON THYME CHICKEN AND ROOT VEGETABLES

Creamy Tuscan Italian Sausage Pasta

CREAMY TUSCAN ITALIAN SAUSAGE PASTA

Keto Cheesy Balsamic Chicken

KETO CHEESY BALSAMIC CHICKEN

Wonton Chicken Tacos

APPLEBEE’S WONTON CHICKEN TACOS

Hi, I'm Paula. I'm a blogger, a baker, a runner, a writer, a recipe developer, & a cookie dough eater. I love creating great recipes & sharing them with you! You'll find healthy recipes, comfort food and my favorite, indulgent desserts!
read more
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram
  • RSS

DISCLOSURE

Call Me PMc is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases ad no cost to you. Thanks for supporting this small business.

Read my Privacy Policy.

COPYRIGHT

© 2012 – 2023 All recipes & images are original & the sole property of CallMePMc.com All Rights Reserved. All content is for your personal enjoyment & content herein is in no way to be used for commercial purposes. Other than linking to a page, do not copy or otherwise use images or original recipes without my written permission. Republishing posts in their entirety is prohibited. Use of this site automatically constitutes your agreement to these terms.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Stay up to date. Subscribe to receive blog updates in your email inbox

  • Copyright © 2023 Call Me PMc. Design & Development by Melissa Rose Design