Bundt Cake

Name: Old Fashioned Sour Cream Bundt Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 80 min
Total time: 100 min
Ingredients: 2 cups butter (softened ); 3 cups white sugar; 6 large eggs; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 3 cups all-purpose flour; 1/4 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 pinch nutmeg; 1 cup sour cream

The classic bundt cake was invented alongside the iconic bundt pan in 1950 (surprise, surprise!) and it’s still going strong! In fact, there are so many delicious bundt cake recipes around right now that it’s hard to imagine a time before the bundt pan existed! The bundt pan is really more of a cake mold than a “pan” and it comes in a variety of different shapes and sizes. It really is a super useful pan to have in your kitchen because you can use it to bake so many different kinds of cake!

Once your bundt cake is baked, it won’t need much further decoration because of the distinctive shape is holds when you turn it out of the pan. I often just dust my bundt cake with some powdered sugar or drizzle a glaze on top and hey presto – a super decorative and yummy dessert option almost straight from the oven! Oh and when I say “drizzle” I literally mean “drizzle”; if you smother your bundt cake in glaze you’re just going to hide the naturally beautiful presentation of this cake.

In terms of cake mixes, most two layer mixes will work in a bundt pan. I tend to use recipes with sponge or butter cake for my bundt cakes but it’s really up to you. Since almost all bundt cakes have a hole in the middle, you can also add a little more “oomph” to your cake by putting some ice-cream or fruit in the center. Whipped cream works a treat too!

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Old Fashioned Sour Cream Bundt Cake

This sour cream bundt cake is one that everyone's Grandma used to make! Easy, delicious and perfect for dessert.

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Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes

Servings: 16

Keywords: bundt cake recipe

Ingredients

2 cups butter softened
3 cups white sugar
6 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 pinch nutmeg
1 cup sour cream

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 °F.. Grease and lightly flour a standard 10-inch Bundt pan.
Using a stand mixer or a hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until light colored and fluffy.
Beat in the eggs one at a time, making sure that each egg in completely incorporated into the butter mixture before adding another egg.
Beat in the vanilla.
Whisk together your dry ingredients . Add 1/2 the flour mixture, combine, then add half of the sour cream. Repeat again and mix until just combined.
Pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan. Smooth out the top, then tap on the counter to release any air bubbles.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean AND a toothpick inserted right by the inner tube area comes out clean. This is the last part to bake properly!
Cool for 15-20 minutes then invert the Bundt pan onto a cooling rack. Let cook completely and frost with choice of icing, or eat plain.

Nutrition Facts

Calories: 493kcal, Carbohydrates: 56g, Protein: 5g, Fat: 28g, Saturated Fat: 16g, Cholesterol: 147mg, Sodium: 337mg, Potassium: 81mg, Sugar: 38g, Vitamin A: 915IU, Vitamin C: 0.2mg, Calcium: 38mg, Iron: 1.5mg

How to Get a Cake Out of a Bundt Pan

If you’ve ever experienced the panic of having a perfectly designed bundt cake get stuck to the pan, this one’s for you! And if not, this one is also for you! There’s nothing worse than getting to the final hurdle in the process of baking your bundt cake masterpiece and discovering it’s stuck. My best answer for this is to steam it right out of there.

First, boil a kettle of water and carefully pour some of it over a clean kitchen towel. Then drape the towel over the top of your bundt pan and leave it there for about 20 minutes or until the pan has cooled down enough to handle. The trick here is that the combination of the warm pan and moisture from the towel will create steam, which will release the cake from the pan once its inverted! Phew!

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As I mentioned earlier, I like to drizzle some glaze over my bundt cake or add a dusting of some powdered sugar on top – and that’s it!