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Melissa and Bebe, The Cake School

Easy Limoncello Bundt Cake

This easy recipe starts with a cake mix. It is ultra moist with a light lemony flavor and a simple limoncello glaze
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings: 15 servings
Course: Dessert
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

For the Cake
  • 1 Box white cake mix
  • 1 small pkg instant lemon pudding
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/2 cup vegetabe oil (we use canola oil)
  • 1/2 cup limoncello
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1/2 cup milk whole or 2%
  • juice and zest from one lemon approximately 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 1 TBSP lemon extract
For the Glaze
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 stick unsalted butter
  • 3 TBSP water
  • 1/3 cup limoncello

Equipment

  • 1 bundt cake pan 10 to 12 cups

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
  2. Grease and flour a 10 or 12 cup bundt pan
  3. Zest and squeeze the juice from one lemon (approx. 1/4 cup). Set aside.
  4. Sift the cake mix into your mixing bowl. Add the flour, lemon pudding mix, and sugar and combine.
  5. Add all of the other ingredients to the bowl: zest and juice one lemon, vegetable oil, sour cream, eggs, Limoncello, lemon extract and milk.
  6. Mix at low speed for about 10 seconds to incorporate before increasing to medium speed for two minutes.
  7. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a skewer or toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached. During the last 15 minutes of baking, make the glaze.
Glaze Instructions
  1. In a saucepan, stir the glaze ingredients (sugar, butter, water, limoncello) over low heat until butter has melted. Raise the heat to medium heat, stirring constantly until it begins to boil. (Be careful-it may boil over if you are not stirring). Boil for 3 minutes and remove from heat.
  2. This glaze will be poured over the cake just after the baked cake is pulled from the oven and still in the pan. Pour the warm glaze over the cake (still in pan) and let it sit for 15 minutes to absorb.
  3. After 15 minutes has passed, when the glaze has been absorbed, place your cake plate/pedestal upside down against the cake pan and then flip it all as one so that the cake plate is now right side up with the inverted pan on top. Removethe cake pan to reveal your cake.