Amish Recipes
Funeral Cake
Amish Funeral Cake is topped with a broiled brown-sugar crust and nuts.
There is no baking powder or baking soda in this cake.
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup butter (room temperature)
- 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 buttermilk
Topping
- 7 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated if possible
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
- In mixing bowl, cream butter with both of the sugars for 3 minutes.
- Add vanilla extract, blending well.
- Mix the flour and salt in a separate bowl.
- Add a little of the flour mixture to the butter mixture, stirring until well blended.
- Stir in a little of the buttermilk.
- Continue adding the flour and buttermilk, alternating with each addition.
- When all the flour and buttermilk has been incorporated, pour into prepared pan and bake for 35 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in the center.
- While cake is baking, combine Topping ingredients.
- When cake is done, remove from oven and change oven setting to broil.
- Pour topping mixture over the cake and set pan about 8 inches from broiler heat.
- Broil for 3 minutes or until the topping is brown and bubbly.
- Remove from broiler and cool on a rack.
Nutrition
Per serving: Cal 567 (41% fat) Fat 26g (14g sat) Fiber 1g Chol 62mg Sodium 575mg Carb 79g Calcium 94mg