Butter Cake!

Baby Butter Bundt Cake

A few years ago Charlie and I discovered the wonder that is Butter Cake after a friend suggested we try it at a well known pizza chain. I will forever love and hate him for this suggestion :)

With butter in it's name, one should be expecting a very rich cake.

However, two bites in to Charlie and were both sure we were on the verge of a diabetic heart attack.

I was sure I could feel my arteries constricting. And, I may have hallucinated Paula Deen at our table for minute.

But once I was sure immediate death wasn't going to follow, I knew I was hooked on this cake.

In the years since the first tasting, I've come back to this cake again and again trying to figure out its exact composition.

I've researched tons of copy cat recipes. And, I tried several in my own kitchen.

Finally, after devoting three days and untold amounts of butter to this cake, I found something I felt was close enough.

I think the original has some sort of cream cheese topping or filling but I was purely interested in the cake and the crust achieved on its outside.

My version ended up as a bunt cake and is very, very rich but remains fluffy.

I coated the inside of the pan with butter and sprinkled with sugar to get that nice crunch on the outside. And, I also poured a vanilla butter glaze over the bottom of the cake as it cooled and  topped it with the same glaze before serving.

The finished product must have weighted at least 8 pounds. Which is good. Because then you burn some calories moving it around as this is NOT a diet friendly cake :)

I took the finished product in to work. After all that experimentation, Charlie and I did not need to eat a third butter cake in one week since even the mistakes were too good to throw away.

Big Butter Bundt Cake

The cake was gone within 15 minutes.

Success!

The recipe requires some explaining and would take up too much space here. If you want to try it, call/text/email and I'll send it to you with some tips!