Moms Almond Bundt Cake Recipes

EASY ALMOND BUNDT CAKE RECIPE WITH ALMOND-FLAVORED ICING

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Heat oven to 350 F. Coat a 10-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray and sprinkle with 1/4 cup of sugar.
• In a large bowl or stand mixer, beat together butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Beat in almond filling until combined.
• In a separate small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Alternately add the flour mixture to the butter mixture with the milk, starting and ending with flour mixture. Beat until well blended.
• Spread batter evenly into prepared pan.
• Bake 50 to 55 minutes, but begin checking at 45 minutes, or until toothpick tests with a few crumbs clinging to it.
• Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Then invert onto wire rack to cool completely.
• Gather the ingredients.
• In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, milk, and almond extract until there are no lumps. The mixture should run off a spoon but be opaque. Adjust as necessary.
• Drizzle over entire cake. Source: Adapted from "A Century of Family Favorites from Solo and Baker Brand" (H.M. Smyth Co., 1997).

PRIZE WINNING ALMOND BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F; grease and flour a bundt pan.
• Beat sugar, egg, almond extract, milk and softened butter together.
• Gradually add flour, baking powder and cinnamon.
• In bottom of greased bundt pan, sprinkle almonds and raw sugar to make a nice crunchy topping.
• Pour cake batter over almonds/sugar.
• Bake for 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean from center of cake.
• Cool for 15-20 minutes, then remove from pan.
• Cool on wire rack.
• Serve warm or cooled - your preference.

GLAZED ALMOND BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan. Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and ground almonds. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract and vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with 1 cup milk, mixing just until incorporated. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 60 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes and invert on a wire rack. Cool 10 minutes longer. Place rack on waxed paper. Combine 1/4 cup milk, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon almond extract and toasted sliced almonds; pour over warm cake.

MOM'S ALMOND BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350. Grease bundt pan then put large dabs of butter along creases of pan, embedding an almond in each dab.
• Cream butter.
• Sift the two sugars together and gradually add to butter. Scrape bowl.
• Add unbeaten egg yolks, one at a time. Beat until smooth. Scrape bowl.
• Mix in extracts. Scrape bowl.
• Sift flour 3 times, re-measure, sift with baking powder and salt 3 times (Mom was emphatic about the sifting).
• Starting with flour and ending with flour, add flour and milk alternately to batter. Scrape bowl.
• Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake 1 1/4 hours or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove to wire rack and cool completely.