Take a bite into this boozy dessert!
The first time ever making this dessert, I added WAY too much Bourbon. I think I may have even gotten my kids a bit tipsy (hahaha just kidding). Any who, below is the recipe with the perfect amount of Bourbon.
Apple Bourbon Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Serves 12
225 g (2 sticks) butter at room temp
315 g (2 ½ c) flour
3 Tbsp + ½ cup of Bourbon
90 g ( ½ c) candied ginger, chopped
325 g (1 ¾ c) brown sugar
4 large eggs at room temp
8 g (2 tsp) baking powder
5 g (1 tsp) baking soda
3 g (1 ½ tsp) cinnamon
A pinch of salt
½ tsp nutmeg
225 g (1 c) sour cream
15 g (1 Tbsp) vanilla extract
5 g (tsp) lemon zest
2 lg apples, peeled, cored and coarsely chopped
120 g (1 c) toasted walnuts or pecans
100 g (½ c) sugar
Juice of one lemon
Directions
Preheat the oven to 325 F. Grease and flour a 12-cup bundt pan.
In a small bowl, combine 3 Tbsp. Bourbon and the candied ginger. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter and brown sugar until really soft, light and fluffy, on medium high speed. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
In another bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
In another bowl, mix together the sour cream and the vanilla. Pour in the ginger infused Bourbon and whisk until smooth. Add the lemon zest. Set aside.
Add the dry ingredients and the sour cream mixture to the butter mixture in three increments, alternating between the two.
Fold in the ginger, apples and nuts.
Pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan and bake for about 1 hour 10 min.
Cool in the pan for 20 minutes then transfer to wire rack.
While the cake cools, combine the ½ cup of sugar with the remaining Bourbon in a small saucepan. Set on the stove on low heat and stir until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and add the lemon juice.
Cut slits in the cake and pour about half the Bourbon mixture on the still arm cake.
When the cake has cooled completely, flip it over, cut more slits and pour the rest of the Bourbon mixture. Flip it back and it is ready to serve!
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