Christmas Spice Cake
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This super easy Christmas Spice Cake recipe is a buttery, light, and moist spice cake rich with warm spices of the season. Baked in a bundt pan this is a spiced Christmas cake you do not need to decorate, but it can also be easily elevated with a few festive touches!
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I like to serve this Spiced Christmas Bundt Cake simply dusted with confectioners’ sugar and topped with sugared cranberries. It’s a beautiful, festive, and simple cake, perfect for the holidays.
It works either as the main event, or as a simple Christmas cake to keep on the counter for when people stop by for a cup of coffee. The beauty is in it’s simplicity.
Ingredients
This Christmas Bundt Cake is made with simple ingredients you likely have on hand.
- Pantry Ingredients: Granulated sugar, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Refrigerated Ingredients: You will need 3 large eggs, 2 sticks of butter to equal 1 cup, plus 1 cup of sour cream.
- Spices: This Christmas Cake is rich with holiday spices of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
Bundt Cake Pans
This Christmas cake recipe will fill a 10 to 12 cup Bundt pan. I have a traditional Bundt cake pan, and also a Gingerbread House Bundt pan. Both would work equally well.
Before transferring the batter into the pan, be sure to grease and flour it well. Here is a fantastic guide to all the different ways to stop your bundt pan sticking.
If you don’t have a bundt pan, this will work in a large tin or loaf pan, or even baked as mini cakes with a slight adjustment to the baking time.
To work out if your recipe will fit a pan, count the number of eggs in your favorite cake recipe using that pan. You want the number of eggs to be equal.
Frequently Asked Questions
It’s always best the day it’s baked or within 24 hours. Or, you can bake it in advance, let it cool completely, wrap in plastic and then in foil and freeze. To thaw, set the frozen cake on a wire rack and let it thaw at room temperature. For a Bundt cake, that could take a little time.
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Spiced Christmas Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour spooned and leveled
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp cloves
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF and prepare a 10 or 12-cup bundt pan by greasing and flouring.
- Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat together the butter and sugar until fluffy; 3 to 4 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, and mix until each is fully incorporated. Scrape down the bowl with a spatula as necessary. Then mix in the sour cream and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
- Using the electric mixer, add the flour mixture into the butter mixture and beat on low speed until incorporated.
- Transfer the cake batter into the prepared pan and bake for 45 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. The inner sides of the cake will begin pulling away from the edges.
- Let cool for 10 minutes in the pan before carefully inverting the cake and transferring it to a cooling rack. Use a butter knife to gently go around the inner edges of the pan.
- Garnish the top with sifted confectioners' sugar and fill the center with sugared cranberries and rosemary.
Notes
Nutrition
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How long in advance can this be baked?
Hi Luke— it’s always best the day it’s baked or within 24 hours. Or, you can bake it in advance, let it cool completely, wrap in plastic and then in foil and freeze. To thaw, set the frozen cake on a wire rack and let it thaw at room temperature. For a Bundt cake, that could take a little time.
This cake was deliciously spicy and well balanced. What a treat!
When do you mix in the sour cream?
Mix the sour cream into the batter with the vanilla extract.