12 Bundt Cake Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

Bundt cakes have certainly had a moment in recent years, perhaps spurred on by the expansion of the popular Nothing Bundt Cakes chain. While Nothing Bundt has been around since the late ’90s, the cakes themselves date back to the 1950s, when the first ring-shaped Bundt cakes were produced. Because of this, Bundt cakes manage to be both retro and contemporary. What we love most about them, though, is that you don’t have to be a cake decorating pro to make them look great. All you need is a good cake release spray to remove the cake in one piece, and then a simple sprinkle of powdered sugar or drizzle of frosting is enough to make it as photogenic as it is delicious.

The recipes on this list are all baked in a Bundt pan—and yes, they’re all cakes, too—but within those parameters, they’re pretty diverse. We’ve got a decorative holiday cake, a 1970s classic, and an old favorite revamped in a new pan. Yes, there’s even a copycat from everyone’s favorite Bundt cake franchise. (There’s no guaranteeing Bundt that status just because it’s the only one we know of that offers this hyper-specialty.)

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Easter Bundt Cake

If you’re an expert at decorating cakes and also have some specialized equipment, you can consider Easter as an opportunity to show off your skills by making a lamb or bunny-shaped cake. The rest of us, however, can make a festive dessert in a much simpler way by making this vanilla Bundt cake with white chocolate frosting and sticking a few chocolate eggs on top. Jelly beans would also work well and make for an even more colorful cake decoration.

Recipe: Easter Bundt Cake

White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake

What makes this cake taste like coconut? A combination of three different ingredients: coconut extract and canned coconut milk go into the batter, while the outside of the cake is covered entirely in desiccated coconut. As for how the coconut flakes stick to the cake, that’s where the white chocolate comes in. This ingredient is used to flavor a cream cheese frosting. Yes, this Bundt cake requires frosting, but no advanced decorating skills are necessary since the coconut layer will cover up any uneven areas the same way November snow hides the fact that you stopped mowing the lawn in July.

Recipe: White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake

No Copy Bundt Cake

If you want to understand why Nothing’s Bundt cakes are all the rage but aren’t willing to pay retail price, we don’t blame you, because even a fairly basic 10-inch cake can set you back over $40. A much cheaper option is to make it yourself, and we have it on good authority (the developer) that this copycat cake tastes pretty close to the cake chain’s. It’s also easy to make since it starts with a boxed cake mix.

Recipe: No-Copy Bundt Cake

Pineapple Upside-Down Bundt Cake

Some people like to bake pineapple cake upside down in a square pan, others in a round pan, and get extra cute and rustic by using a cast iron skillet. Here, however, we bake it in a Bundt pan, and what do you know? The result is very good. It does look a little different, though, because instead of floating on top, the pineapple, brown sugar, and cherries all sink into the cake. Still, it makes for an interesting pattern, and the cake tastes just as you’d expect. As a bonus, it’s less messy than the traditional kind.

Recipe: Pineapple Upside-Down Bundt Cake

Lemon cake

The tart taste of this cake comes from the zest of several lemons added to the batter. The juice is not forgotten either, as a small amount is added to the icing sugar frosting. If you want the cake to taste even tarter, you can sprinkle more grated zest on top as a garnish, but another idea would be to decorate the cake with blueberries for a sweet and fruity contrast.

Recipe: Lemon Cake

Strawberry cake

Unlike a strawberry cake made from a mix, this dessert isn’t bright pink. Instead, the chopped fresh berries incorporated into the batter give it a slight hint of dotted lines, while the pureed ones used in the frosting give it a slight pink tint. The overall appearance of the cake may not scream “strawberry!” but it does let the flavor do the talking. Still, if you want to give a more obvious visual hint to the flavor, you can always add a few berries on top.

Recipe: Strawberry Cake

Caribbean Rum Cake

Yo ho ho and a plate of cake! Yes, we prefer this rum cake to a barrel of rum (not to mention the weevil-infested ship’s biscuit that was also part of the pirates’ daily fare). This cake gets a double dose of rum since the ingredient is used in the batter and also to flavor a syrup that soaks into the cake rather than sitting on top like a thicker frosting would.

Recipe: Caribbean Rum Cake

3-Ingredient Pineapple Angel Food Cake

While most angel food cake recipes call for a two-piece bundt pan, this cake is baked in a one-piece Bundt pan. Hooray for double-duty pans! And also for super easy recipes, since all you really need to make this is a box of cake mix and a can of crushed pineapple. The third ingredient is whipped cream, but it’s just used as a topping, so it’s actually optional if you don’t have any on hand.

Recipe: 3-Ingredient Pineapple Angel Food Cake

Frosted Butter Cake

This butter cake isn’t the gooey St. Louis type that’s more like a bar cookie, nor is it a pound cake since it doesn’t contain 16 ounces of butter and isn’t baked in a loaf pan. Instead, it’s a basic vanilla Bundt cake made extra rich with sour cream and yes, a generous amount of butter. You can dress it up with the included vanilla frosting or loosen it up with powdered sugar, but it would also be delicious with ice cream, whipped cream, or berries.

Recipe: Frosted Butter Cake

3 Ingredient Vanilla Cake

If you just had a power outage and your ice cream melted before you could eat it, don’t throw it away! Food waste is always a shame, but it’s even more so if it’s something tasty. Instead, repurpose the ice cream by turning it into a Bundt cake by adding a box of cake mix and a few eggs. While the cake in this recipe is vanilla, any flavor of ice cream and cake mix will do.

Recipe: 3-Ingredient Vanilla Cake

Salted Caramel Cake

While Bundt cakes have been all the rage in recent years, so has salted caramel. What could be more natural than combining the two? This cake is also a convenient way to use up any plain yogurt you have on hand, since for some reason it doesn’t come in single servings. A note on caramel frosting: Its salty flavor comes entirely from the small amount of this ingredient found in butter. If you really want your caramel to taste salty, you can sprinkle a little coarse or flaked salt on top.

Recipe: Salted Caramel Cake

Sock-It-To-Me Cake

If you’re a Gen Z, millennial, or even a young Gen Xer, the name “sock it to me” may not ring a bell, but it was a popular catchphrase in the ’70s when this cinnamon pecan cake first came to be. The original recipe was created in Duncan Hines’ test kitchen, so it required a boxed cake mix, but this version is homemade.

Recipe: Sock-It-To-Me Cake

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