Mint Julep Cake

Mint julep cake

For cake:

3 cups cake flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

2 cups sugar

2 sticks butter, softened

4 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup buttermilk

For bourbon sauce:

½ cup sugar

1 stick butter, softened

½ cup Kentucky bourbon

Mint leaves for garnish

For mint glaze:

1½ cups confectioners sugar

1 tablespoon milk, or more

1 tablespoon clear crème de menthe

To make cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda together. Beat sugar and butter in mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Add dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately, stirring just until combined after each addition.

Pour into 10-inch bundt pan coated with nonstick cooking spray; smooth the top. Bake in 325-degree oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove to a wire rack.

To make bourbon sauce: Heat sugar, butter and bourbon in a saucepan until butter is melted, stirring constantly. Poke holes in top of the cake with skewer. Pour bourbon sauce evenly over hot cake. Let cool completely. Invert cake onto serving plate. Drizzle with mint glaze and garnish center of cake with mint leaves.

To make mint glaze: Whisk confectioners sugar, milk and crème de menthe in a bowl until smooth. Whisk in additional milk if glaze is too thick to drizzle. Makes ¾ cup.

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I got this recipe from Bluegrass Gathering cookbook.  I could only find a large bottle of cream de menthe so I used a mint icing flavor packet.  This is what gave my icing the green color.  I had a coworker who made the same cake the same weekend and she used cream de menthe.  The icing is better that way but neither Jesse or  I were huge fans of the icing either way.  The cake, however, is great.  It is best eaten the same day it is made.  Next time I make it I will keep the cake the same and for the frosting make a chocolate bourbon frosting so I guess instead of a mint julep cake it would become a bourbon ball cake.  The rating below is for just the cake.

Megan-4.5/5

Jesse-4.5/5