Warm butter cake is one of the best dessert recipes ever. Here is how to make warm butter cake from scratch.
What is Warm Butter Cake?
Warm butter cake is one of my favorite desserts. The butter cake Mastro makes is wonderful served warm and topped with vanilla ice cream and raspberry sauce.
The cake is crunchy on the outside from turbinado sugar, yet moist and almost gooey on the inside. The textures and flavors are unbeatable.
How to Make Warm Butter Cake Step By Step:
Making warm butter cake involves three parts:
- The first part is to prepare the cake mixture using unsalted butter, cream cheese, eggs, course sugar, and flour. You simply mix them until they are combined and then bake them for 30 minutes until they are done.
- The second part of making this butter cake involves making the filling which includes unsalted butter, vanilla extract, buttermilk, sugar, and baking soda. You just have to cook the mixture for about 10 minutes before using it in this recipe.
- The last part involves poking a few holes on the top of the cake and pouring the buttermilk mixture into the holes. Then, you can serve your cake with vanilla ice cream, strawberries, and mint, or any other garnishes you like.
Warm Butter Cake ingredients

For the Cake:
- 1 lb unsalted butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 5 oz cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 5 eggs
- 2 cups flour
For the Buttermilk Mixture:
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup unsalted butter
- ⅔ tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
For Garnish:
- Vanilla ice cream
- 1 pint of fresh berries
- 12 sprigs of mint
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- For the cake, beat the butter with sugar in a bowl with an electric mixture until it becomes soft and smooth.
- Add the cream cheese and continue beating it at medium speed.
- Beat in the vanilla. Then, add the eggs one at a time, beating slowly until the mixture is fully combined.
- Add the flour to the mixture and beat until combined.
- Grease the cake pans with melted butter or oil.
- Pour the cake mixture into the cake pans and tap them a few times to eliminate the air bubbles.
- Bake the cakes for about 30 minutes until they become golden brown and an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
While the cakes are baking, you can prepare the Buttermilk Mixture
- Combine the sugar, unsalted butter, vanilla extract, buttermilk, and baking soda in a saucepan.
- Cook the mixture, while stirring, until the mixture is well combined and starting to boil.
- When the cakes are done, immediately poke holes all over each cake with a wooden skewer.
- Pour the buttermilk mixture on the top of the cakes to make sure the buttermilk gets into the holes.
- Allow the cakes to cool.
- Top the cakes with vanilla ice cream and fresh berries, and garnish with a sprig of mint.
How to Serve Warm Butter Cake

There are many different ways to make your warm butter cake look amazing.
Mastro’s serves the warm butter cake with vanilla ice cream, raspberry sauce, strawberries, and orange slices.
If desired, you can top the cakes with brown sugar and brown them with a kitchen torch. Then, you can top the cakes with vanilla ice cream, raspberry sauce, and a sprig of mint. Then, you can serve the cakes with a large bowl of homemade whipped cream and enjoy!
How Do You Warm Up Butter Cake?
To reheat the butter cake, just place it on a foil-lined baking sheet. Then, place it in a cold oven and set the oven to 250 F. Heat the cake just until it is warm, about 10 to 15 minutes.
What is the Best Butter For Cakes?
Unsalted Butter
It is one of the best types of butter for both cooking and sautéing. Unsalted butter can be made from milk, cream, or maybe both. It has 80% fat and is the best choice of butter for baking cakes.
You can also try this type of butter:
- Salted Butter
- Organic Butter
- European Style Butter
- Whipped Butter
- Compound Butter

Warm Butter Cake Nutrition Facts
Calories 262 For 67g serving size
- Calories from Fat 108
- Total Fat 12g
- Saturated Fat 2g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 4.3g
- Monounsaturated Fat 5.1g
- Cholesterol 50mg
- Sodium 180mg
- Potassium 36mg
- Total Carbohydrates 38g
- Dietary Fiber 0.2g
- Sugars 28g
- Protein 2g

Warm Butter Cake
Description
Warm butter cake is one of the best dessert recipes ever. Here is how to make warm butter cake from scratch.
Ingredients
For the Cake:
For the Buttermilk Mixture:
For Garnish:
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- For the cake, beat the butter with sugar in a bowl with an electric mixture until it becomes soft and smooth.
- Add the cream cheese and continue beating it at medium speed.
- Beat in the vanilla. Then, add the eggs one at a time, beating slowly until the mixture is fully combined.
- Add the flour to the mixture and beat until combined.
- Grease the cake pans with melted butter or oil.
- Pour the cake mixture into the cake pans and tap them a few times to eliminate the air bubbles.
- Bake the cakes for about 30 minutes until they become golden brown and an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Combine the sugar, unsalted butter, vanilla extract, buttermilk, and baking soda in a saucepan.
- Cook the mixture, while stirring, until the mixture is well combined and starting to boil.
- When the cakes are done, immediately poke holes all over each cake with a wooden skewer.
- Pour the buttermilk mixture on the top of the cakes to make sure the buttermilk gets into the holes.
- Allow the cakes to cool.
- Top the cakes with vanilla ice cream and fresh berries, and garnish with a sprig of mint.
Serving Size 67g
Servings 1
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 262
- Calories from Fat 108
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 12g19%
- Saturated Fat 2g10%
- Cholesterol 50mg17%
- Sodium 180mg8%
- Potassium 36mg2%
- Total Carbohydrate 38g13%
- Dietary Fiber 0.2g1%
- Sugars 28g
- Protein 2g4%
- Vitamin A 1.4 IU
- Calcium 3.2 mg
- Iron 4 mg
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Carol Obara
What kind of pans do you use and how many to make warm butter cake?
Hamdi Saidani
the ingredients, for 4 persons which means you need 4 medium size pans.
Alli
I have the same question. What size cake pans?
Daezy
Hello! I know you answered another question about pans saying you need 4 medium ones, but do you happen to know the exact dimensions of the pans in inches? Thank you!
Joni Gimbel
What size pans are they?
Megan
No baking powder?
Kat
Just looking at the pictures, I’d go with a 4 inch cake pans that’s two inches high. Fill it half way. These would be individual servings. You could probably do 2 6 inch pans as well. I’ll try this at somepoint and confirm.
Kati
Hi! Were you able to confirm what size of pan or ramekin to use for the butter cake recipe? Thx!
Leslie A Kawai
Could I substitute coconut sugar for cane sugar?