Vanilla Bundt Cake Recipes is a variety of cakes made using an oven and a bundt pan. It’s typically moister than other cakes as it has more butter in the recipe and less sugar in the topping than some cakes.
A bundt pan is a large tube pan with ridges on the cake’s outside. It is a popular cake to make at home, and many recipes for it are available, making it difficult to choose a recipe.
We’ve selected recipes for vanilla bundt cakes that are easy to make and taste great.
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How To Prepare Vanilla Bundt Cake Recipes?
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 50 minutes
Serving Size: 8
Equipment:
- Large Mixing bowl,
- wire whisk,
- 9×2 inch (23×5 cm) round cake pan
Ingredients Vanilla Bundt Cake Recipes:
For Cake:
- Two cups (400g) unsalted butter at room temperature.
- 2 cups (400g) granulated sugar
- Three teaspoons of pure vanilla extract.
- Three large eggs, at room temperature, lightly beaten.
- 3 cups (375g) all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt.
For Topping:
- 3 cups (360g) confectioners’ sugar, sifted (more if needed)
- 2-3 tablespoons of cream, half and half, milk or water.
How To Make Vanilla Bundt Cake Recipes?
For Cake:
Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C, or gas mark 4). Butter, flour, and lightly mist a 10-inch bundt pan with vegetable oil.
Step 2: Place butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
With the mixer on low speed, beat in vanilla extract. Add eggs 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Step 3: In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer on low speed, alternately add dry ingredients to the butter mixture in 3 additions and buttermilk in 2 additions, starting with dry ingredients.
Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Do not over-mix, or your cake will be tough. Transfer the batter to the prepared pan.
Step 4: Bake for about 50 minutes or until the wooden pick inserted in the center comes clean. Cool the cake in a cake pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and cool it on the wire rack.
Step 5: Prepare topping ingredients and spread them over the cake. Replace cake in pan.
For Topping:
Step 1: Sift confectioners’ sugar into a medium bowl. Stir in enough cream, half-and-half, milk, or water until desired consistency is reached.
Step 2: Sprinkle the top of the cake with confectioners’ sugar.
Note: We have used the confectioners’ sugar to ensure that the cake gets crumbly, not too moist, and, thus, not too soft. You may also use granulated sugar instead.
Nutrition Facts Of Vanilla Bundt Cake Recipes
- Calories: 178
- Protein: 6g
- Carbohydrates: 32g
- Cholesterol: 39mg
- Sodium: 200mg (5%)
- Sugar: 27g
- Fat: 4.4g
- Fiber: 0.3g
What Makes A Bundt Cake A Bundt Cake?
Generally, a bundt cake is a cake that is baked in a bundt pan. A bundt pan is a large tube pan with ridges on the cake’s outside.
The end result is that you get ridges on the cake’s outside, making it easy to turn over when you serve it.
The texture of bundt cakes is light and spongy compared to other cakes, such as pound cakes which are dense in texture.
How Full Do You Fill A Bundt Cake Pan?
To be truly called a bundt cake, the pan must be filled about 2/3 of the way up. However, if you’d like to cut back on the butter and flour that goes into the cake, you can fill it ¾ full instead and use fewer ingredients.
What’s the best bundt pan to use?
The best bundt pan to make your cake is a 10-inch (23 cm) pan with ridges on the outside. You can also make a smaller cake with this pan, but it will take longer to bake.
You want ridges on the outside of the bundt pan because you’ll easily turn over the cake so that it cooks up evenly.
How To Keep A Vanilla Bundt Cake From Sticking To The Pan?
The best way to keep a bundt cake from sticking to the pan is to butter, flour, and lightly mist your bundt pan with vegetable oil before making the cake.
You can also try using cornstarch, the traditional method of coating a bundt pan. However, that may not be a good method anymore because if you’re using a nonstick pan
or even just stoneware, you might have less success with this method.
How To Keep A Vanilla Bundt Cake Moist
The most important thing you can do when making any recipe for a cake is to ensure that the eggs you’re using are at room temperature before you add them to your recipe.
The reason this is important is that cold eggs will put in shock the other ingredients, and that can affect how moist your cake turns out.
How To Decorate A Bundt Cake?
You can decorate a vanilla bundt cake in many different ways. Indeed, it is not the type of cake with many decorations, but you certainly can add a decorative element to it.
For example, you can frost the cake with one of the frosting methods available such as royal icing or ganache. You could also stencil onto the top of your cake to add random designs.
Conclusion
Vanilla bundt cake recipes are great to use for everyday meals. For example, you can make bundt cakes with savory fillings such as beef and mushroom filling or chicken and ham stuffing.
You might even want to add some zest of the cake on top of some vanilla pastry cream or mousse.
