Country Amish Funeral Cake 1965

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 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
• 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

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven 350 degrees f.
• 2 grease a 9 x 13 cake pan.
• 3 in mixer bowl cream butter and sugars well for three minutes.
• 4 in a small bowl whisk the flour and salt.
• 5 add the flour and salt to the butter mixture, alternating with the buttermilk.
• 6 beginning and ending with the flour.
• 7 pour into pan and bake.
• 8 bake 35 minutes until top springs back when touched.
• 9 combine all topping ingredients together in a mixer bowl, then stir in the nuts.
• 10 when cake is finished, turn temp. to broil.
• 11 pour topping all over the cake, and place under broiler at a distance of 8 inches below.
• 12 broil for three minutes, until brown and bubbling.
• 13 remove cool on rack.
• 14 cut and serve from cake pan.