Brown Butter Cake
Brown Butter Cake
This brown butter cake recipe is seriously delicious. It’s got tons of flavour from the brown butter, vanilla and orange zest.
The browned butter is the thing to master, then once you can do that, the rest of the cake is so simple.
I’ve opted for a loaf cake with a chocolate glaze, but it would be equally as good as a layer cake covered in swiss meringue buttercream – you’ll just want to adjust the baking time so keep an eye on your oven, and make sure you split the mixture evenly between your cake pans so you have even cake layers!
This is the perfect moist brown butter cake recipe – give it a go and let me know what you think!
Looking for more loaf cake recipes? Check out my marble loaf cake and my lemon loaf cake recipes.
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Ingredients
Method
In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Keep cooking until it turns a nice deep golden colour. Weigh 190g of brown butter into a bowl and set aside to cool for 10 minutes in the fridge.
In a stand mixer, whisk the egg whites for 30 seconds until frothy.
Add the icing sugar, ground almonds, orange zest and vanilla. Whisk to combine.
Add in the self raising flour and whisk again.
Very slowly drizzle in the cooled brown butter, whisking as you drizzle.
Once combined, pour the cake batter into a 2lb loaf tin (greased and lined), and bake for around 80-90 minutes at 160C.
Once baked, allow the cake to cool to room temperature, then freeze for 2 hours.
In a saucepan over a medium heat, heat the cream and honey together until the mixture is steaming.
Add the chocolate to a separate bowl/jug and pour the steaming mixture over the top. Let it sit for 2 minutes, then whisk or blend with a hand blender until smooth.
For an added finish, pour a little of the mixture out into a separate bowl and blend with some gold powder.
Cool to around 35C then pour the (non gold) glaze over the chilled cake.
Drizzle the gold glaze over and feather with a toothpick.
Let the excess drip off and then put it onto your serving plate. Leave to come to room temperature before serving.
Ingredients
Directions
In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Keep cooking until it turns a nice deep golden colour. Weigh 190g of brown butter into a bowl and set aside to cool for 10 minutes in the fridge.
In a stand mixer, whisk the egg whites for 30 seconds until frothy.
Add the icing sugar, ground almonds, orange zest and vanilla. Whisk to combine.
Add in the self raising flour and whisk again.
Very slowly drizzle in the cooled brown butter, whisking as you drizzle.
Once combined, pour the cake batter into a 2lb loaf tin (greased and lined), and bake for around 80-90 minutes at 160C.
Once baked, allow the cake to cool to room temperature, then freeze for 2 hours.
In a saucepan over a medium heat, heat the cream and honey together until the mixture is steaming.
Add the chocolate to a separate bowl/jug and pour the steaming mixture over the top. Let it sit for 2 minutes, then whisk or blend with a hand blender until smooth.
For an added finish, pour a little of the mixture out into a separate bowl and blend with some gold powder.
Cool to around 35C then pour the (non gold) glaze over the chilled cake.
Drizzle the gold glaze over and feather with a toothpick.
Let the excess drip off and then put it onto your serving plate. Leave to come to room temperature before serving.
That looks amazing! Would it work with something other than almonds? I want to make it but people who get kidney stones cant eat almonds.
Yes any ground nut, like hazelnut!
I’m hearing that American self rising flour is not the same as British. Is this recipe dependent on the British kind?
It should be ok! Worth a test!
That looks delicious! I will give it a go!
Love your videos!
Enjoy!!
I made this recipe and it’s one of best brown butter cakes I have had.
I want to make it a bit less sweet for my grandparents. How much can I reduce sugar without affecting the overall texture?
Oh good! I haven’t tried reducing the sugar but it’s worth a go!
Hi! What’s gold powder?
Gold lustre powder
Just baked this yesterday. The cake is wonderful but the glaze was so thin and runny. In the end it looked like the photo and tasted great but it seems like 550 grams of cream is way too much for 185 grams of chocolate. I was out of 70% chocolate so had to use 60%. Would that 10% difference have affected the glaze thickness that much?
the cocoa percentage will have a slight impact but it is veryyy liquid! I think in hindsight i could make it thicker, but as long as the cake is very cold, the glaze should set really nice and thin on the cake! You can make it thicker with less cream for sure!
Could you make this cake nut free ?? If so what’s the ratio ?
I’m afraid I haven’t tested that
Hi Matt!
I was following your recipe on the chocolate hazelnut cake, when midway through baking after I refreshed the page the recipe just disappeared and I can’t seem to find it ever since. I absolutely loved the recipe and just wanted to know if you took it down or just a technical error.
It should be there!
How to substitute self raising flour with all purpose flour.
I’m afraid I haven’t made it myself but there are lots of recipes online!