Bourbon-Brown Sugar Cake Layers

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2019

These bourbon-soaked cake layers are both salty and sweet.

SERVES Makes two 9-inch cake layers

TIME 1 hour, plus 2 hours cooling

Bourbon-Brown Sugar Cake Layers

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We found that adding bourbon to the batter gave us the right level of booziness. A simple swap of light brown sugar for granulated sugar in the cake gave us a deep caramel flavor throughout.

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