This Spiced Christmas Cake is a buttery, light, and moist spice cake rich with warm spices of the season.
Simply dusted with confectioners’ sugar and topped with sugared cranberries. It’s a beautiful, festive, and simple cake, perfect for the holidays.
Spiced Christmas Cake 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.
How to Make this Spiced Christmas Cake
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 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.
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Spiced Christmas Cake
This Spiced Christmas Cake is a buttery, light, and moist spice cake rich with warm spices of the season. Simply dusted with confectioners' sugar and topped with sugared cranberries. It's a beautiful, festive, and simple cake, perfect for the holidays.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 1/3 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
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 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.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 16 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 290Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 74mgSodium: 268mgCarbohydrates: 35gFiber: 1gSugar: 19gProtein: 4g