Recipe: Bama Butter Cake

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By Stacey Little
Southern Bite

Think super moist, dense vanilla cake, studded with pecans, drizzled with a sweet butter sauce. Yep. That’s my Bama Butter Cake. And y’all … it’s amazing.

Yes, this is my take on the classic Kentucky Butter Cake. My internet sleuthing reveals that the first mention of a Kentucky Butter Cake was when Ms. Nell Lewis won the 1963 Pillsbury Bake-Off with it. I don’t know why it was called Kentucky Butter Cake, because Ms. Lewis was from Missouri.

I couldn’t just share the recipe without putting my own spin on it, though. So, I’ve taken one of my classic pound cake recipes, added some finely chopped pecans (because butter and pecans go so well together) and used a butter sauce very similar to the one Ms. Lewis used in 1963.

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