Fruity Bundt Cake Food

FRUITY TUBE PAN CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Add vanilla. Combine 2 cups flour and baking powder; gradually beat into batter. Combine pecans, cherries and remaining flour; fold into batter. Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. , Bake at 325° for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Combine confectioners' sugar, milk, vanilla and salt; drizzle over cake. Garnish with cherries.

GOLDEN BRANDY BUNDT FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300D F.
• Mix together almonds and fruit: Set aside.
• Mix together flour, baking powder and salt: Set aside.
• Grease Bundt pan well and lightly flour it.
• Cream shortening (or butter) and sugar well.
• Beat in eggs.
• Add vanilla.
• Blend flour mixture alternately with brandy into creamed shortening and sugar.
• Add almond and fruit mixture and mix well.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Keep a pan of hot water on lowest shelf of oven while cake is baking.
• Bake for about 2 hours until cake tests done.
• Cool in pan 10-15 minutes, then turn out and cool completely on wire rack.
• Wrap cake in brandy soaked cloth and store in airtight container in fridge for several weeks.

NUTTY FRUIT BUNDT CAKE WITH AN ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Grease and flour a bundt pan, set aside. In a medium bowl, mix all streusel ingredients and set aside. (NOTE: We yielded 2 cups of streusel).
• MAKE THE CAKE:In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder and baking soda and set that aside. Have the measured orange juice ready also.
• In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer set on medium speed beat together butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in zest and vanilla.
• Reduce mixer speed to low and alternately beat flour mixture and orange juice into egg mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Gently fold in blueberries (or raisins). (NOTE: When we made this using raisins, it yielded just over 4 cups of batter).
• Spoon half of the cake batter into prepared bundt pan. Sprinkle with half of the streusel mixture. Top with the remaining cake batter and then streusel. Bake for about 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Transfer pan to a wire rack to cool for 10-15 minutes. While cake is cooling, stir together glaze ingredients in a small bowl until smooth. When cake has cooled, invert onto a serving plate. When cooled to room temperature (about 20 more minutes), drizzle with the glaze.

TUTTI-FRUTTI POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat an 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inch loaf pan with cooking spray. Line with parchment, leaving a 2-inch overhang on long sides. Coat parchment with cooking spray, then dust with flour, tapping out excess. Whisk together flour, salt, and baking powder in a bowl.
• Beat butter and cream cheese in a large bowl until creamy. Add granulated sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating to combine after each addition. Beat in vanilla. With mixer on low speed, gradually add flour mixture, beating to combine.
• Transfer batter to prepared pan, smoothing top with an offset spatula. Bake on a baking sheet until a tester inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour, 10 minutes, tenting with foil after 50 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack, then turn out onto rack, top-side up, and let cool completely, about 3 hours.
• Slice cake in half horizontally. Slice each portion in half again to create 4 equal slices.
• Filling: Bring 2 cups peaches, granulated sugar, salt, and 1/3 cup water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Reduce to a simmer and cook, covered, until fruit is tender, about 5 minutes. Let cool slightly, then puree mixture in a food processor until smooth (you should have about 1 1/2 cups).
• Prepare an ice-water bath. Sprinkle gelatin over 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan. Let sit until softened, about 5 minutes. Heat over medium, stirring until gelatin is dissolved. Stir in peach mixture to combine. Transfer to a large bowl; place in ice bath and let stand, stirring frequently, until beginning to set, about 6 minutes. Stir in remaining 1 1/2 cups peaches and cherries. Whisk cream to stiff peaks, then fold into peach mixture. Continue stirring over ice bath until mixture will hold its shape when dropped off a spoon.
• Line loaf pan with plastic wrap, leaving an overhang on all sides. Place bottom cake layer in pan. Spread 1 cup peach mixture over cake. Repeat with remaining cake layers and filling, ending with top cake layer. Wrap plastic around cake and refrigerate until set, at least 4 hours and up to 2 days, before removing from pan using plastic. (If desired, trim edges of assembled cake.) Dust with confectioners' sugar just before serving.

BABY FOOD CAKE III

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar, eggs, and oil. Beat until smooth. Mix in baby food and nuts. Beat in flour mixture alternately with applesauce. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

FRUITY RUM BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Combine apricots, cherries, raisins, and 1/2 cup rum in a small bowl and let sit 30 minutes to allow fruit to rehydrate. Drain, reserving rum. Sprinkle fruit with 3 Tbsp. flour and toss to coat; set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Thoroughly butter pan, making sure to get into all the curved or ridged places; dust pan with flour (do this even if your pan has a nonstick coating). Whisk baking powder, salt, cloves, and 3 cups flour in a medium bowl to combine. Whisk reserved rum, oil, and 1 1/4 cups sour cream in another medium bowl to combine.
• Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat 2 cups raw sugar and remaining 1 cup butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; reserve pod for another use. Add egg yolks and egg one at a time, beating to blend after each addition; beat until mixture is light and very fluffy, about 4 minutes. Reduce speed to low. Add dry ingredients in 3 additions, alternating with sour cream mixture in 2 additions, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Fold in reserved dried fruit. Scrape batter into prepared pan; smooth top. Tap pan firmly a few times on counter to force batter into edges of pan.
• Bake cake until golden brown and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 60-70 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cake cool in pan 15 minutes. Invert cake onto a serving plate; carefully remove pan and brush warm cake with remaining 2 Tbsp. rum. Let cool completely, about 3 hours.
• Mix powdered sugar and remaining 2 Tbsp. sour cream in another small bowl, thinning with more sour cream if desired (the thinner the glaze, the further it will drip down the sides of the cake), until smooth. Drizzle glaze over cake, working along the center of the top of the cake for even coverage, and sprinkle with raw sugar. Let sit 10 minutes for glaze to set before slicing with a serrated knife.
• Do Ahead
• Cake can be baked 1 day ahead. Do not glaze. Store loosely covered at room temperature.