This is my second month as a member of #BundtBakers. #BundtBakers is a group of bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bundts with a common ingredient or theme. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme or ingredient. This month’s theme is Easter and our lovely host is Tara from Noshing with the Nolands.
My first bundt was one of my grandmother’s recipes. This month’s bundt is as well.
With a theme of Easter there wasn’t any question in my mind as to what I would make. Busia would always make her pound cake and bake it in a Lamb or Chick cake mold and it would always be decorated with jelly beans. My mom has the chick cake mold but unfortunately we haven’t been able to find the lamb. I might just have to order a Spring Lamb 3-D Cake Mold off of Amazon. The first year I made this recipe we were having a group of friends over for Easter and I thought it’d be fun to serve cupcakes, and I decorated them with jelly beans to create a cute spring landscape.
As I think is the norm for pound cake I made the recipe in a loaf pan. But I always had problems with the top cracking, and I have issues when it comes to frosting cakes so it was never pretty.
Given that this blogging group is called #BundtBakers, this year I used my bundt pan to make my most beautiful Easter cake yet! Because the top of the cake becomes the bottom of the cake I didn’t need to worry about frosting uneven cake. The mold of the cake pan created a beautiful smooth surface that even my novice frosting abilities could handle. I decorated the cake in “Easter egg” style striping with jelly beans.
Easter Pound Cake
Ingredients:
- 5 eggs, at room temperature
- 2 sticks butter, at room temperature
- 1 2/3 C sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon extract
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 2 C cake flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease cake pan.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer beat eggs and butter until smooth. Add in eggs one at a time until incorporated. Add in the sugar. Once combined add the lemon and almond extracts. Add the salt and flour in batches until batter is smooth. Pour into greased cake pan and bake 50-55 minutes, until a knife comes out clean.
- Allow cake to cool before frosting with cream cheese frosting. (Recipe below)
Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients:
- 5 tbsp butter, at room temperature
- 5 tbsp cream cheese, at room temperature
- 3 – 3 1/2 C powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- milk, as needed
Steps:
- In the bowl of a stand mixer beat together butter and cream cheese until combined.
- Add sugar a few tablespoons at a time. Also, add vanilla 1/2 tsp at at time. Once all vanilla and 3 C of sugar have been added taste the frosting. Add more sugar to taste. Only add milk if needed to balance flavors or smooth out the icing. (I used very little more than 3 C of sugar and needed no milk.)
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And don’t forget to take a peek at what other talented bakers have baked this month:
Strawberry Poppy Seed Cake by Renee at Magnolia Days
Babka with Bittersweet Chocolate Chunks by Laura at The Spiced Life
Bursting-with-Berries Lemon Curd Bundt Cake by Felice at All That is Left is The Crumbs
Lemon Coconut Bundt Cake by Kathya at Basic N Delicious
Easter Bunny Bundt by Jane at Jane’s Adventures in Dinner
Bunny Nest Carrot Mini Bundts by Stacy at Food Lust People Love
Colorful Spring Bundt Cake by Varada at Varada’s Kitchen
Mini Lemon Spring Bundts by Tara at Noshing With The Nolands
Pineapple Pale Ale Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze by Melanie at Melanie Makes
Carrot Tea Cake by Veronica at My Catholic Kitchen
Hot Cross Mini Bundts by Kelly at Passion Kneaded
Easter Egg Cake by Margaret at Tea and Scones
Lemon and Elderflower Bundt Cake by Maria at Box of Stolen Socks
Strawberry Lemon Bundt Cake by Lauren From Gate to Plate
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This is such a colourful cake! I love the decoration. I love that you are sharing your grandmother’s recipe with us! Happy Easter!
Thank you, I always enjoy making Busia’s recipes. Food is a wonderful way to be connected to those you love, even after they’re gone. 💜
My four year old would love this although I know she would sneak into the kitchen and snick all the jelly beans off the top.
Growing up it was always a highlight of Easter. I wish I had photos of the lamb to share too! We’d always argue about who got the head as it had extra candy for the eyes! 😉
This is such a cute cake, I want to pick off a bunch of those jelly beans and then dive right in!!
Thanks, Tara. And thank you for picking this theme!
I love, love, love that this is your grandmother’s recipe and that you make it every Easter in different forms. But I think you’ve found your métier, as the French say. Bundt cakes are your thing! So glad you could join us this month. I am pretty damn sure your grandmother is proud of that cake, decorated with jellybeans. Happy Easter!
Thank you. 🙂 I don’t think I’ll make in any other form from now on.
Very cute cake. It must be nice baking with your grandmothers recipe.
Thank you. I’ve featured a few on my blog so far. 🙂 it’s always nice to feel connected to a recipe.
what a cute and festive pound cake!
Thanks!
I love the traditions behind your Easter cakes!
I just can’t have Easter without Busia’s pound cake!
What a great bundt recipe and looks super tasty.
The key is in the almond extract. 🙂
Bundt cakes to the rescue! What a cute way you decorated it too. The overhead shot is a real winner.
Haha! Thank you. I had fun with my food styling on this one. 🙂
I seriously struggle with frosting. Love how you decorated this.
Thank you. I do too. It seems like it should be so simple yet it’s not. Good thing I’m not a professional! 😉
I love it when traditions are passed along through the generations, and I really hope the lamb mold turns up somewhere – probably in the place you last expected it. My girls would go crazy for this with that wonderful frosting and jelly beans.
Pound Cake I do like…A wonderful recipe with fond memories of a loved one, these are by far the VERY BEST, traditional recipes…Grateful to you for sharing…
I just love cream-cheese frosting, especially on this special pound cake…
Beautiful, pinned for all to enjoy…
Thank you so much for your sweet words.