- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 2 tbspns Kentucky bourbon
- 1 tspn vanilla
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 2 tspns baking powder
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 tspn salt
- 1 cup pecans or walnuts, finely chopped
- Kentucky bourbon fudge frosting (see below)
Sift dry ingredients together, and add alternately with milk in three addition, beginning and ending with flour. Fold in nuts.
Bake in 2 greased and floured 9-inch cake pans at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Cool and frost with Kentucky bourbon fudge frosting.
Kentucky Bourbon Fudge Frosting
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 2 oz unsweetened chocolate
- 1 egg, at room temperature
- 3 tbspns Kentucky bourbon
- 1 tspn vanilla
- 1 tspn lemon juice
- 1 cup pecans or walnuts, finely chopped
- 3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
Stir in vanilla, lemon juice, and Kentucky bourbon. Gradually add remaining 2 cups of sugar. Continue beating, adding sugar as necessary until frosting is smooth and of spreading consistency. Stir in nuts.
(Origin - "Best of the Best from Kentucky - Selected Recipes from Kentucky's Favorite Cookbooks" edited by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley. Quail Ridge Press, 1983. This recipe was originally from "Favorite Fare II.")
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