18 Bundt Cake Recipes

Chocolate ganache being poured over a chocolate Bundt cake that is on a wire stand

Chocolate Bundt Cake1/18

An homage to the chocolate cakes of yesteryear but with a contemporary dark chocolate oomph that turns tradition upside-down in the most pleasing possible way. You're welcome.

An espresso cake drizzled with glaze on a wire rack that is set on a pice of parchment to catch any glaze drips.

Espresso Cake2/18

This simple yet spectacular riff on coffee cake—there's actually coffee in the cake—is rich and robust and rousing in that way only espresso can be.

A fancy Bundt Kentucky bourbon cake on a silver platter.

Kentucky Bourbon Cake3/18

This Southern classic is like a pound cake given its decadent amount of butter and its tender crumb. But oh, baby, wait'll you taste the bourbon glaze.

A lemon pound cake resting on a round wire rack, drizzled with a white icing glaze

Lemon Pound Cake4/18

When life hands you lemons, make this lemon pound cake. Guaranteed to give you a far more favorable outlook on everything.

A chocolate glazed chocolate bundt cake sitting atop a white cake stand with a dish of glaze on the side

Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake5/18

Does the true beauty of this cake lie in its stunning silhouette? Its intensely chocolatey chocolatiness? Or its lazy-day ease? You tell us.

A vanilla angel food cake in Bundt form, with a slice on its side, all sprinkled with powdered sugar

Vanilla Angel Food Cake6/18

All the delicate loveliness of classic angel food cake but made even better with the addition of pure vanilla and a blizzard of confectioners' sugar.

A Portuguese orange olive oil cake, dusted with confectioners' sugar on a silver cake stand.

Portuguese Orange Olive Oil Cake7/18

This classic Portuguese dessert with its tender crumb and citrus smack tastes as stunning as it looks. Swear.

A swirled gingerbread Bundt cake with a lemon glaze on top, all on wire rack over a sheet pan

Gingerbread Bundt Cake8/18

This gingerbread Bundt cake has all the warm spicy goodness of gingerbread cookies. And, as if that wasn't enough, it's gilded with a sassy sweet-tart citrus glaze.

A Zingerman's sour cream coffee cake with a piece cut from it and lying on its side with a cup of coffee, and a stack of plates and pile of forks nearby.

Zingerman’s Sour Cream Coffee Cake 9/18

A highly addictive and obscenely moist coffee cake from the legendary Zingerman's Bakehouse. You'll be making this cinnamon and walnut beauty often.

A glazed pumpkin pound cake on a plate--a pumpkin Bundt cake with a milk-sugar poured glaze

Glazed Pumpkin Pound Cake10/18

If you've been thinking maybe you're done with pumpkin everything, wait'll you experience this aromatic pound cake that boasts the perfect balance of sweet and spice.

A Red Truck Bakery apple cake on a cake stand being drizzled with maple glaze

Red Truck Bakery Apple Cake11/18

A yearround charmer, this is sorta like Bundt cake gone to finishing school yet retains all the comforts of home. From the justifiably famous Red Truck Bakery in rural Virginia.

An old-fashioned zucchini cake on a silver plate with lemon glaze being drizzled over it.

Old-Fashioned Zucchini Cake12/18

No matter how much soggy steamed zucchini you were forced to choke down as a child, you won't turn away this moist zucchini cake that tastes just like grandma used to make.

A vanilla pound cake, cut, on a marble slab

Vanilla Pound Cake13/18

Flecked with vanilla seeds, this classic cake is ridiculously rich and oh so satisfying with its tender crumb and its knee-wobbingly crisp outer edges. Pound cake perfection.

A whole ligurian almond cake cooling on a wire rack.

Ligurian Almond Cake14/18

A remarkably—and deceptively—simple that cake boasts an understated elegance that befits this frugal and classic Italian dessert.

An apple coffee cake with one slice cut from it on a wire cooling rack with parchment underneath.

Apple Coffee Cake15/18

Elegant enough for company, simple enough for every day, and versatile enough for breakfast and midnight snack and pretty much every moment in between.

A partially cut St. Phanourios cake on a wooden slab on a wooden chair.

Saint Phanourios’s Cake16/18

Bake this cake in honor of Phanourious, the patron saint of lost objects, and you just might find something. Even if you never knew it was missing.

Rum Cake17/18

Every bit as boozy and as brilliant as it sounds. Inspired by the old-fashioned rum cake made in the Caribbean with dark rum in all its magnificently spiced glory.

A slice of twinkie bundt cake dusted with confectioners' sugar and turned to show the cross section.

Twinkie Bundt Cake18/18

A ginormous riff on the iconic American snack cake, this Twinkie look-alike boasts a beauteous appearance, an amped-up vanilla smack, and ingredients you can actually pronounce.