Country Amish Funeral Cake 1965
- Cake
- 1 cup room temp. butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 2 cups fresh dairy buttermilk, at room temperature
- Topping
- 7 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon grated fresh nutmeg
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or 1/2 cup walnuts
- Preheat oven 350 degrees F.
- Grease a 9 x 13 cake pan.
- In mixer bowl cream butter and sugars well for three minutes.
- In a small bowl whisk the flour and salt.
- Add the flour and salt to the butter mixture, alternating with the buttermilk.
- Beginning and ending with the flour.
- Pour into pan and bake.
- Bake 35 minutes until top springs back when touched.
- Combine all topping ingredients together in a mixer bowl, then stir in the nuts.
- When cake is finished, turn temp. to broil.
- Pour topping all over the cake, and place under broiler at a distance of 8 inches below.
- Broil for three minutes, until brown and bubbling.
- Remove cool on rack.
- Cut and serve from cake pan.
cake, butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, allpurpose, salt, fresh dairy buttermilk, topping, butter, brown sugar, nutmeg, milk, pecans
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/country-amish-funeral-cake-1965-82632 (may not work)