31 Bundt Cake Recipes for Beautiful Baking Without Fuss
Bundt cake recipes rarely require any decoration; the pan alone is enough to make an easy cake into a showstopper. But once you have a Bundt cake pan (whether it’s classic or more elaborate), you need to pick a flavor profile. Will you go spiced or lemony? Laced with chocolate or a pour of rum? Apple-walnut? Rhubarb-pistachio? Or something that isn’t quite cake but still looks the part, like a peanut-buttery mix of cereal, pretzels, and other snacks, or a towering pile of brioche balls. Below you’ll find our 31 favorite Bundt cake recipes, including all that and more.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Drew Aichele1/31Classic Bundt Cake
Before we go down this long list of Bundt cake recipes, let's kick it off with a classic. This vanilla cake from Epi contributor Tara O'Brady can be dressed up with whipped cream and fruit or snagged by the slice for snacking on the go. It uses the reverse creaming method to make quick work of the batter-making process.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Kat Boytsova2/31Hot Cocoa Cake
Coffee powder enhances the deep flavor of chocolate in this cake, and melty chunks from a chopped up bar of chocolate take it even further. Serve with whipped cream (or Angostura whipped cream) if you know what's good.
Photo by Matthew Septimus3/31Apple Walnut Bundt Cake
Olive oil helps this Bundt cake stay moist and flavorful for days, so this is the ideal to recipe to bake when you want to snag little snacky slices all day long.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich4/31Cold Oven Pound Cake
Pastry chef Cheryl Day is full of baking wisdom—including the lesson of starting this pound cake in a cool oven and letting it cook low and slow.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Kaitlin Wayne7/31One-Pot Honeycomb Cake
It might look like any other Bundt cake from the outside, but this vivid pandan-flavored honeycomb cake will delight you as soon as you begin to slice it.
Charles Schiller8/31Rum-Scented Marble Cake
Rum and chocolate are magnificent together—here, a third of the batter is mixed with bittersweet chocolate so you'll get a pretty spiral inside the cake.
Paulette Tavormina12/31Cinnamon Bun Bundt Cake
Here's a brunch recipe that'll really make Sunday feel special. Cinnamon buns, in fancy coffee-cake style.
Photo by Shutterstock14/31Quatre-Quarts au Chocolat de Juliette (Chocolate Pound Cake)
Chopped chocolate, not cocoa, gives this cake its flavor. Try it with a little Angostura whipped cream on top.
Photo by Romulo Yanes16/31Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake With Buttermilk Icing
This autumnal dessert from Gourmet can be baked and kept at room temperature for a few days, which means it's great to have around the house. The buttermilk icing will harden slightly into the perfect crackly texture.
Photo by Oriana Koren, food styling by Lillian Kang, prop styling by Jillian Knox18/31Cinnamon-Roll Pound Cake
Photograph by Eva Kolenko. Food styling by Susie Theodorou. Set design by Kira Corbin. On set producer: Jennifer Thomas.20/31Rum Cake With Sticky Maple Glaze and Coconut
Photo by Laura Letinsky23/31Spiced Cranberry Bundt Cake
Dorie Greenspan makes this jolly cake with five-spice powder, almond meal, ground ginger, and both fresh (or frozen) and dried cranberries. The glaze has a bit of orange juice, which pairs well with the tart berries.
donna hay magazine, photography by Chris Court29/31Spiced Chai Bundt Cake
This easy Bundt cake recipe gets a touch of pumpkin pie spice in addition to loose chai.
Jody Horton30/31Spiced Sweet Potato Bundt Cake
This sweet potato cake from chef Tanya Holland is much simpler to make than sweet potato pie, but just as delightful.
