Layered cakes are lovely, but you know what's even better (and easier)? Bundt cake recipes! Just think: fewer dishes, no fear of sliding layers, and simpler slicing and serving. Plus, it's totally appropriate to serve a coffee cake baked in a fluted pan or muffin-like mini bundt cakes before noon. Get out your bundt cake pan, because it's about to become one of your go-to baking tools.
Blueberry Bundt Cake
Equal parts familiar and totally unexpected, this lemon-blueberry Bundt cake recipe takes the concept of a blueberry muffin or cake batter and gives it a 21st-century makeover. It's subtly nutty—with a blend of all-purpose and rye flour at its base—and warmly spiced with cardamom. Lemon zest and juice, plus fresh blueberries in the cake and the glaze, result in a remarkably refreshing yet decadent treat.
Lemon Bundt Cake
Here's how to make a bundt cake that will really turn heads: Invest in a geometric bundt cake pan (sometimes called the "jubilee" pattern). Any dessert, including this simple one-bowl lemon cake, looks elegant almost instantly after being flipped out as a jubilee Bundt pan recipe. Once cooled, crown the cake with a drizzle of a simple lemon juice and powdered sugar glaze.
Coconut-Pecan Coffee Cake
Serving any coffee cake is a delightful way to start the day, but we're partial to Bundt cake breakfasts. Compared to sheet-pan coffee cakes, Bundt cake pans offer more surface area for the buttery, crumbly pecan topping to touch the cake for a golden brown, irresistible exterior. Crown this with a dusting of cocoa and powdered sugar.
Vanilla Bean Cake with Pecan-Praline Glaze
This Bundt cake recipe from scratch is the perfect ending to a Southern-inspired meal. While the vanilla bean-scented batter is delightful, the pecan-praline glaze is the star of this Bundt cake dessert. Heavy cream, butter, pecans, and vanilla extract make it dark caramel-colored, drizzly, and downright decadent.
Apple-Maple Spice Cake
Warning: You're about to fall in love with this autumnal apple Bundt cake. Nutmeg and cloves give it a hint of holiday baking spirits, and you can definitely taste the pleasant maple elements that flavor each crumb. But the kicker that genuinely makes this treat fit firmly into the apple dessert category is the 4 chopped apples and a full cup of apple butter that moisten the batter.
Bourbon-Chocolate Tipsy Cake
We have a brilliant baking hack for when you're preparing a chocolate bundt cake recipe. Butter the Bundt cake pan and dust it with cocoa powder, shaking and tilting to evenly coat. This simple step will prevent the cake from sticking. You won't want to leave even a crumb behind when you whip up this boozy bourbon cake. It's supremely chocolaty with both melted unsweetened and sweet baking chocolate in the batter.
Triple-Citrus Pound Cake
Think fresh and bake up a Bund cake recipe featuring grapefruit, lime, and orange. There's no wrong time to serve this tangy treat, but we say the orange juice glaze makes this wholly appropriate as a breakfast recipe. Try sugar-dusted slices of any of the citrus options, or a combo of all three, as an aromatic center topping.
Banana-Nut Pound Cake
Bundt cake breakfasts do exist. You'll be a believer after just one bite of this moist banana Bundt cake. It tastes like banana bread 2.0, thanks to cream cheese hiding inside the über-tender batter. We recommend you also go nuts by folding toasted pecans or walnuts into the mix.
Chocolate-Peppermint Bundt Cake
Here's a Bundt cake recipe from scratch that's cooler than a candy cane. To complement the batter flavored with dark chocolate, malted milk, and peppermint extract, complete the chocolate Bundt cake with a shower of crushed peppermint candies. Serve it around the winter holidays—or on any day you wish felt more like one.
Cranberry-Orange Bundt Cake
Not all Bundt cake recipes feel dressy enough for a dinner party treat, but this fruity dessert sure does! Why? We've spiked the Bundt cake dessert with a Champagne glaze. Just add a dusting of powdered sugar for the final photo-worthy flourish.
Butterscotch Marble Cake
Shh ... it can be our little secret that sometimes the best cake recipes are Bundt cake recipes from cake mix. This bakery-quality crowd-pleaser starts with a box of white cake mix, a package of instant butterscotch pudding, a generous shower of chocolate-flavored syrup, and a few other pantry staples. Mix all following our marbling instructions, bake, and garnish with a speedy chocolate glaze. No one will guess this is semi-homemade.
Pumpkin Spice Latte Bundt Cake with Whipped Cream
If you can't get enough PSL lattes when fall arrives, try the flavor in cake form! This pumpkin Bundt cake also incorporates espresso and pie spice. As one reviewer raves, " My husband and I love this Bundt cake! Other reviewers are right, it is not super sweet, but I actually really appreciate that. It's definitely more like a tea bread, and the pumpkin spice flavors are really nice."
Old Fashioned Mini Bundt Cakes
Inspired by the classic cocktail, this mini Bundt cake recipe is finished with a bourbon glaze and cherries. The cake itself is flavored with vanilla and bitters. All that's missing is the ice!