Hot Milk Cake REVISED with BOURBON!
I've been eating Hot Milk Cake all my life. All the women on my mom's side of the family make it and they make it well. The recipe they all use is the one I have based this version on. It comes from my great grandmother Mary Estelle Daisy Carpenter better known as Mah Maw. I assume she learned the recipe from her mother but it could have come from anyone on the Eastern Shore of Virginia where our family is from. Hot Milk Cake is very popular there, or was years a go, and is either made plain, with orange, or with lemon. I decided to swap the citrus for booze! Hot Milk Cake can be iced with a simple cake drizzle if you like. I do! Here's my Hot Milk and Bourbon Cake Recipe.
4 beaten eggs
2 sticks melted butter
1/4 cup hot milk (I use half and half)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup bourbon (original recipe calls for juice of 1 large orange)
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
dash of salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
Simply dump all the ingredients in your mixing bowl and mix on low then pour the batter into a well greased tube pan.
Bake on 375 for 1 hour to an hour and 15 minutes
Optional: Drizzle cake with simple icing made from powdered sugar mixed with milk, bourbon, or orange juice
YUM!
