Italian Orange Bundt Cake Recipe - An Italian in my Kitchen (2025)

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What makes a Bundt cake different? ›

Bundt cakes are a round, one layer cake with a hole in the middle. The cake's name comes from the name of the cake pan with fluted sides that they are baked in. This special, aluminum non-stick cake pan is called a Bundt pan. These cakes are doughnut-shaped, and often drenched in icing or glaze.

The Italian Hangover Cake is a homemade cake from Defazio's. It features a flavorful combination of Disaronno, Gran Marnier, Vodka, and Orange Juice. It's a classic soaked bundt cake, just like my salted caramel Kentucky butter cake with bourbon.

Overbeating, Overmixing, or Undermixing Your Cake Batter

Too much air and your cake will collapse because it simply can't hold onto all that air.

Can You Make a Regular Cake in a Bundt Pan? Good news here: You can definitely make regular cakes in your favorite Bundt pan. According to Mark, you'll want to stick with recipes for traditional layer cakes, pound cakes and sheet cakes. These all can be baked in your favorite fluted cake pan.

The Best Trick For Releasing a Cake From a Bundt Pan

Usually the cake likes to cling to the tube in the middle, so nudging it loose there can be all it takes. After doing this, carefully flip the bundt pan over and lightly shake it.

An Elvis Presley cake is a single-layer classic yellow cake that's topped with a pineapple glaze. Much like a poke cake, the syrup and juices of the pineapple will seep into the cake through fork holes, resulting in a decadent, ultra-moist cake.

Technically, funeral cake is a chocolate sheet cake with fudge icing and topped with crunchy pecans and big enough to feed a crowd—which you may recognize as Texas Sheet Cake.

A two-tier Godfather themed cake featuring all hand-modeled and edible elements from the classic movie. The cake is lemon chiffon with a delicious raspberry butter-cream filling, covered in dark chocolate ganache and LMM fondant.

If you purposely or accidentally used baking soda instead of baking powder without making any changes to your recipe, you'll definitely end up with a bitter taste. Remember, baking soda is an alkaline, or base, ingredient that naturally has a bitter taste. Baking powder is a multi-ingredient leavener.

It's a cooked chocolate mixture poured over crushed animal crackers to make a cake-like texture and topped with dark chocolate ganache. Keep it simple vanilla or add rum, kahlua or bourbon. What is lazy cake?

What does a sinking cake mean? ›

The most common reasons a cake sinks in the middle include the following: The pan is too small. There's too much liquid. Opening the oven or moving pans during baking. Oven temperature is too low, or cake isn't baked long enough.

Like other tube or ring style pans, the central tube allows faster and more even heat distribution when baking large volumes of batter. Ring pans like Bundt molds heat faster than regular round pans and they bake deep cakes evenly even at diameters over 9 inches.

If your cake was cooked to the proper temperature, chances are it is still edible even if it sunk in the center. Check that it's baked through the middle, then try a small piece of your cake. It might not taste good if the ingredient measurements were off. Notice the texture to make sure it's not too dense or spongy.

Like other tube or ring style pans, the central tube allows faster and more even heat distribution when baking large volumes of batter. Ring pans like Bundt molds heat faster than regular round pans and they bake deep cakes evenly even at diameters over 9 inches.

All Nothing Bundt Cakes products are baked fresh daily on-site. “We use all real ingredients, such as in our real butter and cream cheese frosting. It's not icing and you can taste the difference,” Jannette said.

Bundt cakes are underrated. When prepared correctly, they have nearly everything a great cake should have: they're dense with flavor, they're easy to cook without burning, they're nice and moist, there are more crunchy edge pieces than with most cakes, and they look fantastic.