pat's Recipe

Kentucky Bourbon Brown-Sugar Pound Cake

Category: Cakes

3 cups flour
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla
6 Tbsp bourbon whiskey
1 1/2 cups packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup plus 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup butter (2 sticks) softened
5 large eggs
2 Tbsp orange juice
strawberries and blueberries for garnish

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 12 cup fluted tube pan. In medium bowl combine flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. In 1-cup glass measuring cup, combine milk, vanilla and 4 Tbsp bourbon.
In large bowl with mixer at medium speed, beat brown sugar and 1/2 cup sugar until free of lumps. Add butter and beat at high speed until light and creamy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. At low speed, alternately add flour mixture and milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
Pour batter into pan. Bake 1 hour and 20 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched with finger and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan.
In small bowl, combine orange juice, 1/3 cup sugar, and remaining 2 Tbsp bourbon; brush mixture all over warm cake. Cool cake completely. Garnish with berries if you like.