This caramel zebra bundt cake, with swirls of chocolate and vanilla running through it will have you coming back for a more! Perfect for afternoon tea, bake sales or just keeping to yourself!
And before we go any further, a bundt in the oven not a euphemism for anything… so stop getting excited!
In fact it’s the second Bundt that’s been in my oven in the last week, as I’ve become a little fascinated by the distinctive ring style cake. I suppose I should really call it a Bundkuchen (that’s the German side of me); as Bundt is the trademarked name given to the pan style by Nordicware back in the 50s and 60s, although it’s argued that it’s too generic.
For me, however, it’s bundkuchen that evokes the most memories. My Grandmother was German, and I always remember when we visited their house in Ireland (yep that’s right Ireland), that there was always a ‘ring cake’ in the tin, and it was always a yellow cake with pink and green swirls throughout it. If we were lucky, there may have been chocolate it there as well, but it’s the bright colours that I remember the most. My other Granny was a Victoria sponge Goddess, but it was my Nana who was the ‘Bundt’ Queen.
I’ve admired the Nordicware pans for sometime, but despite some fabulous designs and my bakeware addiction I’ve never felt a real need to buy one, especially as they rock in the lower end around Ā£30.
Anyway, it was the lovely Jules over at Butcher Baker, that broke the Bundt pan void in my collection, when she mentioned on her Facebook page that the ever fabulous Aldi had a bargain Ā£2.99 pan available the other weekend. Our nearest Aldi is in Swindon, so it probably cost me more in fuel than the cost of the pan itself; but I filled my basket to off set my erm… carbon footprint?!
The pan arrived at just the right time, with celebrations a plenty with our anniversary, mine and Ian’s Mum’s birthday all in one week. There was no reason not to have cake, or test drive the pan!
There are so many recipes for Bundt’s out there; ideally I’d have loved my Nana’s recipe but sadly is one that I never found out, and she took her secret to the grave with her. Jules’ had test run her pan with success with a recipe from BBC Good Food. A quick glance through the recipe and it seemed to be fairly adaptable, so I gave a vanilla and chocolate swirled Bundt with a chocolate glaze a whirl for Ian’s Mum’s birthday. I didn’t have enough soured cream in the fridge so I substituted with crĆØme fraĆ®che, it worked a treat. Excellent, now it’s my turn!
Now, it’s me we’re talking about so there’s got to be chocolate involved, but my sweet tooth had been twitching ever since it spied the salted caramel sauce on Baking a Moment’s Vanilla Malt Layer Cake. So I decided that whatever I created it HAD to have a caramel glaze. Up popped my version of my Nana’s 3 colour Bundt… vanilla, caramel and chocolate.
There was lots of tweaking and changes and I kept with the crĆØme fraĆ®che. You might think that it’s going to add too much wetness to the cake, and it will be far too squidgy but it’s not!
What you do get is a moist cake, that’s really melty; but it doesn’t fall apart and it’s not wet and sticky. It’s actually just perfect for afternoon kaffee und kuchen, or post birthday dinner hangover breakfast!!
I’m pretty much in love with the versatility of the Bundt, that I can see a proper pan in my future; maybe to celebrate National Bundt Day next month!
More Bundt cake recipes to try
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Caramel Chocolate Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Vanilla Layer
- 60 g Unsalted butter
- 90 g Caster sugar
- 1 Eggs medium
- 90 g Plain flour
- Ā½ tsp Vanilla extract
- Ā½ tsp Baking powder
- 75 g CrĆØme fraĆ®che
Caramel Layer
- 60 g Unsalted butter
- 20 g Dark muscovado sugar
- 70 g Light brown sugar
- 1 Eggs medium
- 90 g Plain flour
- Ā½ tsp Caramel Sauce
- Ā½ tsp Baking powder
- 75 g CrĆØme fraĆ®che
Chocolate Layer
- 60 g Unsalted butter
- 90 g Light brown sugar
- 1 Eggs medium
- 80 g Plain flour
- 10 g Cocoa powder
- 25 g 70% Chocolate melted
- Ā½ tsp Baking powder
- 75 g CrĆØme fraĆ®che
To Finish
- Caramel sauce warmed for drizzling – see salted caramel recipe
Instructions
- Lightly grease an 8 inch diameter Bundt pan, then dust with flour. Tap off any excess flour.
- Preheat oven to 180C or 160C (fan).
- In a separate medium bowl, using a hand mixer, cream the butter and sugar for the vanilla layer until pale and fluffy.
- Add the egg to the bowl, and beat until well combined.
- Sieve half the flour, for the vanilla layer, into the bowl, and add the baking powder. Gently fold into the mixture.
- Add half the crĆØme fraĆ®che, for the vanilla layer, into the bowl, and gently mix through.
- Add the remainder of the vanilla layer flour, and fold through.
- Add the remainder of the vanilla layer crĆØme fraĆ®che and the vanilla extract, and mix through.
- Repeat for the caramel and chocolate layers; so that you have 3 different flavours in 3 different bowls.
- Using a table spoon, spread a layer of the vanilla mix across the bottom of the pan, then a layer of caramel, then a chocolate layer. Repeat until all the mix is layered.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes, until golden brown or a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
- When cooled, drizzle over the warmed caramel sauce.
Notes
Nutrition
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I still love this recipe! It’s perfect for a small celebration or the office bake off!
Can’t wait to try out this recipe
Good luck! Hope you like it š
This is gorgeous and I love the combination of chocolate with salted caramel. And the texture looks superb… Perfectly moist and crumbly… Thanks so much for sharing with Made with Love Mondays and welcome to the series!
Thank you. It was the perfect, non-fussy birthday cake. I’m desperate to make it again! Looking forward to linking up again soon š
What a stunning Bundt. I have been rather longing for a Bundt tin for a while and think I may need to put one on my christmas list! Love the idea of the caramel glaze in particular – yum!
Thank you š I’ve been after a Bundt tin for ages too, the Aldi bargain was too good an opportunity to miss. I’ve my eye on a couple of Nordicware ones now as well. I’ve a recipe for the caramel that I use for lots of others things, that I most blog soon.
look beautiful!!
Thank you Gloria, I think it tasted as good as it looks as well š