Bready or Not: Cardamom Bundt Cake with Coffee Glaze

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It’s June and hey, let’s eat cake! Cardamom Cake with Coffee Glaze. A bundt cake full of sugar and glory and cardamom-y goodness.

Bready or Not: Cardamom Cake with Coffee Glaze

I read a lot of books. I also read a lot of magazines. One of my favorite things to do is hit up a good used book store or library book sale and buy stacks of older food magazines to raid for recipes.

Bready or Not: Cardamom Cake with Coffee Glaze

That’s how I found the original recipe for this in an October 2013 issue of Country Living. I modified it, removing pistachios and tweaking here and there, and created a cake that earned the utter adoration of my husband’s co-workers.

Bready or Not: Cardamom Cake with Coffee Glaze

Coffee and cardamom is a fantastic flavor combination. You might remember the Cardamom Coffee Pound cake I posted last fall. This bundt cake is like that awesome loaf cake, and so much more.

Bready or Not: Cardamom Cake with Coffee Glaze

It’s bigger, for one, being a full-size cake. It has a kinda pound cake thing going, too. The sour cream does miraculous thing for cake texture, creating crumb that is dense, not crumbly.

Bready or Not: Cardamom Cake with Coffee Glaze

This is a cake you can eat out of hand, no saucer required. And you’ll want to lick your fingers clean, too, because the glaze includes espresso powder (one of my favorite ingredients to keep around) and sugar.

If the caffeine doesn’t boost your day, you know the sugar will!

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Bready or Not: Cardamom Bundt Cake with Coffee Glaze

This amazing bundt cake pairs two fabulous flavors: cardamom and coffee! Eat this for breakfast or dessert. Modified from recipe in Country Living Magazine, October 2013.
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Keyword: bundt cake, cake, cardamom, coffee, sour cream
Author: Beth Cato

Ingredients

Bundt cake

  • 1 cup unsalted butter 2 sticks, room temperature, plus more to grease pan
  • dried breadcrumbs fine texture, to dust pan
  • cooking spray
  • 2 1/3 cups cake flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cardamom
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 4 large eggs room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup sour cream 8 ounces

Coffee glaze

  • 2/3 cup confectioners' sugar sifted
  • 1 teaspoon espresso powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 Tablespoon milk or half & half, plus more if needed

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Generously butter a 10 or 12-cup Bundt pan. Dust the pan with fine bread crumbs; a toasted and pulverized half heel of bread will do. Apply cooking spray over the bread crumbs.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cardamom, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
  • In a large bowl, use a mixer on medium to beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time followed by the vanilla extract, beating until very pale yellow.
  • Reduce the mixer speed and alternate between adding the flour mix and the sour cream into the butter blend.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared pan, using a rubber spatula. Bake cake until a wooden toothpick inserted into the cake comes out dry with only a few moist crumbs attached, 45 to 50 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack to cool for 30 minutes, then invert cake onto rack to completely cool. Once cool, move cake to cake plate and prepare glaze.
  • Whisk together sugar, espresso powder, and cocoa powder. Add milk and stir, adding more milk as needed until glaze is just thin enough to drizzle. Dribble over cake.
  • OM NOM NOM!

 

Bready or Not: Cardamom Cake with Coffee Glaze

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