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Nothing makes my mouth water like a gorgeous cake with homemade frosting! I love how easy bundt cakes are to frost and make beautiful, with hardly any effort. This homemade Red Velvet Bundt Cake is easy and delicious.
What I LOVE about this Bundt Cake Recipe:
EASY to frost: I fill a pastry bag, fitted with a coupler (no tip), with my favorite cream cheese frosting and simply pipe the frosting along the groves of the bundt cake. You could also use a ziplock bag and cut the corner off. Moist: It’s not dense and dry like bundt cakes can sometimes be. Dress it up or dress it down: Add added some crystal sprinkles on top, or a sprinkle of mini chocolate chips. Super easy and delicious!
How to Make Red Velvet Bundt Cake:
Grease the bundt pan. Spread a thin layer of shortening all over the inside of the bundt pan. Sprinkle a little four, turning and tapping the pan to allow it to lightly coat all over. Set aside.
Combine dry ingredients. To a mixing bowl add flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder and whisk well to combine.
Combine wet ingredients. In another bowl cream sugar and butter. Add oil, eggs, yolks, vanilla, vinegar and red food coloring.
Mix together. Add about ⅓ of the flour mixture and stir to combine. Add half of the buttermilk and stir to combine. Repeat, alternately adding the flour and then buttermilk, ending with flour. Fold in the chocolate chips.
Pour batter into bundt pan.
Bake. Bake at 350 degrees F for 40-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool in cake pan for 10 minutes and then invert onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Frost. Once cool, prepare the frosting, carefully remove the cake from the pan, and frost (see tips below).
HOW TO GET THE CAKE OUT OF THE BUNDT PAN:
Shortening: Spread a very thin layer of shortening all over the pan. I use a ziplock sandwich bag, stick my hand inside of it, and use my hand to smooth the shortening all over every bump and crevice in the pan. This way I can make sure the entire pan is covered evenly, in a thin layer, and my hands stay clean. Flour: Next I get a little pinch of flour and dust it over the pan. Hold the pan over the sink and tap it hard, in a circular motion, all around the edges so that the flour lightly covers the pan. Add cake batter. Now you’re ready to add the cake batter, and rest assured the cake will come out of the pan without sticking!
How to frost a bundt cake:
Spoon frosting into a pastry bag with no tip attached, or into a ziplock bag, with the corner cut. Starting at the outer edge of the bundt cake squeeze and pull a line of frosting up and over the cake, into the center hole. Repeat this process all around the cake.
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Caramel Apple Bundt Cake Chocolate Bundt Cake Chocolate Macaroon Bundt Cake Chocolate Peppermint Bundt Cake Poppyseed Cake Chocolate Chocolate Chip Nothing Bundt Cake
MAKE AHEAD, STORING AND FREEZING INSTRUCTIONS:
The frosting can be made several days ahead of time and stored in the fridge, or frozen for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the fridge. Store the cake covered in the fridge for up to 5 days. Freeze (frosted or unfrosted), covered well, for up to 3 months.
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