Bundt King Cake
Celebrate Mardi Gras without having to make a whole king cake. Make a bundt style king cake with a pound cake pan, sugar, and traditional Mardi Gras colored sprinkles!
Servings: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 ½ cups sugar
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 5 large eggs
- 2 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1 cup milk
Icing
- ⅓ cup unsalted butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 2 to 4 tbsp hot water
Topping
- purple, green, and yellow sanding sugar
Instructions
Cake
- Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom, side and tube of 12-cup fluted tube cake pan with shortening; lightly flour.
- In medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt; set aside. In large bowl, beat granulated sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 5 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Beat flour mixture into sugar mixture alternately with milk on low speed, beating just until smooth after each addition. Pour into pan.
- Bake 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 20 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 2 hours.
Icing
- Heat butter in a saucepan over medium heat until melted.
- Stir in powdered sugar and vanilla.
- Stir in water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until smooth and the consistency of thick syrup. Pour over the completely cooled cake.
- Immediately decorate with sanding sugar, alternating between the green, yellow, and purple sanding sugars.