How to Bake a Perfect Gingerbread Bundt Cake
This Christmas-scented Gingerbread Bundt Cake is tall, regal, and a major crowd-pleaser. It boasts a moist, tender crumb bursting with flavor from fragrant warming spices and a rich, earthy hue from molasses and brown sugar. Top your Bundt cake with a flavorful cream cheese and amaretto glaze, and decorate it with charming sugared cranberries for a festive, sparkling touch. Perfection.
This Bundt cake is easy to make and uses ingredients you likely already have in your pantry. Here are a couple of tips for Bundt cake unmolding success: Coat the pan evenly with nonstick baking spray with flour, making sure to get in all of the crannies and crenellations. Alternatively, grease your Bundt pan with a tablespoon of butter, then shake a tablespoon of flour all around to coat it evenly. Let the cake cool for 10 minutes in the pan before flipping it out onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
To make the Gingerbread Bundt Cake, you will need the following ingredients:

Steps to make How to Bake a Perfect Gingerbread Bundt Cake
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1
Heat oven and prepare Bundt pan
5min -
2
Cream butter and sugar
5min -
3
Mix in eggs
2min -
4
Mix in molasses and vanilla
1min -
5
Combine dry ingredients
1min -
6
Mix milk and sour cream
1min -
7
Complete cake batter
2minStarting and ending with the flour mixture, alternate adding the flour mixture and the milk mixture to the batter in the bowl of your stand mixer, mixing on low speed until just combined after each addition. Do not overmix. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold the batter a few times to ensure that all ingredients are evenly combined.
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Transfer batter to Bundt pan
2min -
9
Bake
45min -
10
Cool
10min -
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Prepare glaze
3minUse a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment to beat 4 ounces cream cheese and 2 tablespoons butter together until well combined and creamy. Add 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon amaretto, and 2 tablespoons milk to the bowl and mix on medium-high speed until smooth and well combined. Add more milk as needed, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the glaze reaches a desired drizzling consistency.
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Glaze
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Serve
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