Strawberry Bundt Cake

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This homemade Strawberry Bundt Cake recipe is a beautiful and delicious treat everyone at the table will love. This recipe is ideal for special events or everyday treats.

If you love fruity cakes, then you’ll adore this amazingly moist Lemon Pound Cake and this Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake.

Strawberry Bundt Cake with glaze and strawberries on top with mint leaves and lemons nearby

Table Of Contents

Recipe Details
What You’ll Need
Ingredient Notes
Add-ins and Substitutions
How to Make Strawberry Bundt Cake
Recipe Tips
FAQs
Serving Suggestions
Make This Recipe in Advance
More Yummy Cakes!
Full Recipe Instructions

Recipe Details

When summer rolls around and everything has blossomed and it smells so wonderful outside, this Strawberry Bundt Cake fits the theme perfectly. Its beautiful presentation and delicious flavor and texture make it a great seasonal treat.

TASTE: Made with sweet strawberries and tart lemon juice and zest, this cake tastes fresh and amazing. You’ll love the buttery flavor of this dessert as well.
TEXTURE: Dense, rich, and moist, this Strawberry Bundt Cake is such a treat. It’s the perfect thing to serve with coffee, tea, or juice.
TIME: This recipe will take an hour and 20 minutes to make.
EASE: This simple bundt cake recipe truly is easy to make and gives you the perfect cake for serving guests.

What You’ll Need

Ingredients for Strawberry Bundt Cake, including strawberries, lemon, butter, eggs, salt, sugar, powdered sugar, baking powder, flour, buttermilk, and vanilla.

Ingredient Notes

Strawberries- Fresh, ripe berries that are bright red are best for this recipe. Their tart-sweet flavor will really come through in this cake.
Lemon- Use a fresh lemon because the juice is tart, but not bitter like concentrate sometimes is. And you will also be using the zest, so look for plump, unblemished ones.
Buttermilk- This tangy ingredient adds great flavor as well as texture to this cake. If you don’t have any, you can easily make your own (see below).
Butter- This adds a lot of buttery flavor and dense moistness to the Strawberry Bundt Cake. Don’t skimp on this ingredient.
Powdered sugar- This will be used for a simple lemon glaze on top of the cake. Powdered sugar is fine enough that it dissolves without leaving a grainy residue.

Add-ins and Substitutions

Add more berries– You can add any kind of juicy fruit here. Blueberries and raspberries go great in this recipe.
Substitute the buttermilk– If you don’t have any buttermilk at home, you can make your own! Just combine 1 cup of buttermilk with 1 tablespoon of white vinegar. Stir it, then let it sit for 5 minutes before adding it to the batter.
Make it allergen-friendly- You can sub in gluten-free flour, as well as cut out dairy by using plant-based butter and buttermilk (or by making your own with almond milk).
Add strawberry jello- Some like to increase the flavor and pink color with the addition of strawberry jello mix. If you do, make sure to adjust your sugar level, too.

How to Make Strawberry Bundt Cake

Mix the wet ingredients: Begin with combing the sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla together in a medium bowl using a stand mixer or electric mixer.

Steps to make Strawberry Bundt Cake, including mixing the wet ingredients in a bowl with an electric hand mixer.

Sift your dry ingredients– Sift them together using a fine-mesh sieve. Then add them to the butter and sugar mixture along with the buttermilk. Mix to combine.

Pro Tip: You’ll want to add a little buttermilk, then a little flour mixture, and switch off between them, mixing in between each, to ensure a smooth cake batter.

Steps to make Strawberry Bundt Cake, including sifting the dry ingredients together, then adding them with buttermilk to the batter, mixing with an electric hand mixer.

Prepare the strawberries. Chop them into pieces and coat them in flour. Then fold them into the cake batter. Pour it into the greased bundt cake pan.
Bake. Bake in the oven at 340 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour (or until a toothpick comes out clean after piercing the center of the cake). Then remove the cake from the bundt pan and let it cool on a cooling rack.

Steps to make Strawberry Bundt Cake, including mixing the strawberries with flour and then adding them to the cake batter, pouring it into the bundt cake pan and then baking it.

Glaze it. Combine the powdered sugar with the milk and lemon juice. Pour this glaze over the cooled bundt cake on a wire rack. Top with fresh strawberries.

Steps to make Strawberry Bundt Cake, including making the glaze and then drizzling it over the cooled bundt cake.

Recipe Tips

Use fresh ingredients- Do NOT use store-bought concentrated lemon juice or dried strawberries. They won’t work well here. You need fresh stuff for optimal flavor.
Use softened butter– Since the butter needs to be whipped, you want to make sure its softened to room temperature so it smooths out nicely.
Coat the strawberries in flour– You do not want to skip this step. Coating the fruit will help prevent them from sinking to the bottom.
Spray the bundt pan with cooking spray– There’s nothing worse than a bunt cake stuck to the pan. If it’s stuck, it’s sure to fall apart – yikes! Grease it up as much as you can.

FAQs

How do you keep a bundt cake moist?

Air dries out cakes, so to keep your Strawberry Bundt Cake moist, cover it with plastic wrap in the refrigerator or leave it under a cake dome at room temperature. The less air that gets to it, the more moisture will remain.

What is the difference between a bundt cake and a pound cake?

While similar, there are a couple of key differences. A bundt cake refers to the pan it is baked in and its resulting shape. A pound cake is one that uses a pound of each key ingredient. You can make a pound cake in a bundt shape, or use a pound of each ingredient in the batter of a bundt cake, so there is some cross-over between the two.

Slices of Strawberry Bundt Cake on a white plate with fresh berries

Serving Suggestions

This summer Strawberry Bundt Cake is perfect as an afternoon snack or as a dessert served to friends and family for holidays and get-togethers. Here are some delicious ways to enjoy it.

Toppings: Top a slice of this cake with a sprinkle of powdered sugar, fresh berries, Chantilly Cream or vanilla ice cream.
Cakes: Serve it alongside this Lemon Pound Cake (VIDEO), Honey Raspberry Cake, or Chocolate Mousse Cake with Raspberry Filling.
Drinks: Enjoy a slice with your afternoon coffee or tea. Try it with this Iced Caramel Macchiato or a Mandarin Banana Smoothie.

Make This Recipe in Advance

Make ahead: This cake can be made in advance and covered with plastic wrap or a cake dome to keep it moist. You can serve it at room temperature.

Storing: Store this Strawberry Bundt Cake for up to 3 days at room temperature, or 5 days in the fridge. Just make sure to cover it with plastic wrap to keep the air out so it doesn’t get dry.

Freeze: If you wrap this cake in foil and then put it in an airtight container, it can be frozen for up to 3 months. It’s best to wait to glaze it until you are about to serve so the glaze doesn’t melt when the cake is thawed.

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This recipe was originally posted on March 28, 2016, we’ve tweaked it a bit since then.

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