Easy Kentucky Butter Cake with Cake Mix
You’ll love this Easy Kentucky Butter Cake featuring a vanilla bundt cake and sweet butter glaze. It’s delicious, moist, and made simple with a boxed cake mix.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 35-45 minutes
- Total Time: 0 hours
- Yield: 12-16 slices 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven, Baking
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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Cake
- 1 box vanilla or yellow cake mix (15.25 ounces)
- 1/2 cup oil (I used light olive oil)
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk (or substitute 1/4 cup sour cream + 3/4 cup milk)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Butter Glaze
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp water
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- First preheat oven to 350 degrees F and generously spray a Bundt cake pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl combine cake mix, oil, eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla extract, and mix together with an electric hand mixer until smooth.
- Pour evenly into the prepared Bundt cake pan and bake in the oven for 35-45 minutes or until the cake is a light golden brown.
- When the cake has 10 minutes baking time remaining, prepare your glaze.
- Add unsalted butter, granulated sugar, water, and vanilla extract to a saucepan.
- Stir ingredients until evenly combined and cook over medium/low heat until the butter is melted and the sugar has dissolved. Do not boil and remove from heat once melted/combined.
- Once the cake has fully baked, remove from the oven and immediately poke holes all over the cake with a skewer or fork.
- Immediately pour 3/4 of the glaze on top of the cake and use a spatula to spread evenly into all the crevices.
- Let the cake cool in the pan for 30 minutes before inverting on a plate.
- Use a pastry brush or spoon and add remaining glaze on top of the cake.
- Cut the cake into 12-16 slices, serve, and enjoy!
Notes
Storage Instructions
Store leftover cake at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
I don’t recommend storing in the fridge, as this can cause it to dry out more quickly.
How to Freeze
Find it online: https://www.kindlyunspoken.com/easy-kentucky-butter-cake/