Here's the Butter Cake You Need Right Now

Feeling shut in? Bored? Ready to abandon any semblance of a sensible diet? This awesome butter cake flavored with Kahlua is just the thing you need right now. Plus it's ridiculously easy, perfect for this time of giving zero fucks. I melted some dark chocolate and drizzled it on the top, but you can do whatever the hell you want. I'd imagine this is great with whipped cream, maybe whip in a little Frangelico or something to make it extra boozy. Also, note that you can pretty much use any liqueur in place of the Kahlua.

Note: Shamelessly stolen from some weird sugar blog, originally with Irish Cream.

INGREDIENTS

Cake

1 cup butter, cubed at room temperature

2 cups sugar

4 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla

3 cups all-purpose flour (don't scoop, fill the measuring cup with spoonfuls of flour)

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup Kahlua

Glaze

1/3 cup unsalted butter

3/4 cup sugar

2 tablespoons Kahlua

2 teaspoons vanilla

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 325°F/165°C.

2. Grease a 10" bundt pan with butter or shortening very liberally. The more you butter, the easier it will come out. It's also just fun to smush butter all over a pan with your thoroughly washed hand. Dust the pan with flour and set aside.

3. Place all cake ingredients in the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on low for 30 seconds and then increase speed to medium and mix for 3 minutes.

4. Pour batter into the prepared pan and bake for one hour, until a toothpick entered into the center comes out clean. 

5. While the cake is cooling, make the glaze. Combine all ingredients into a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir continuously until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved. Do not bring to a boil.

6. While the cake is still in the pan, poke holes all over the warm cake using a kabob stick or knife or I don't know, ice pick, whatever you happen to have on hand. Pour the glaze evenly over the cake. This will be the bottom of the cake and it will be delicious. Make sure you make a lot of holes (see below). I use a soft spatula to evenly spread the glaze around.

7. Allow cake to cool completely in the pan and then invert the cake onto a serving plate. Drizzle with your favorite thing to drizzle over a cake. Mine is dark chocolate. Yours might be another batch of glaze. Whatever, I don't judge.

8. Eat all the cake because fuck everything.