Lemon Buttermilk Bundt Cake

Lemon Buttermilk Bundt Cake

Category: Desserts

Cuisine: not set

Ready in 45 minutes
by jeffreywharton

Ingredients

2 sticks Unsalted butter Room Temperature

3 cups All purpose flour

1 tablespoon Baking powder

2 teaspoons Kosher Salt

2 1/2 cups Sugar

1/2 cup Lemon zest 8 lemons

4 large Eggs

1 cup Buttermilk

3/4 cup apricot preserves or peach preserves

1/4 cup Fresh lemon juice


Directions

1) Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour Bundt pan; set aside. Whisk baking powder, salt, and 3 cups flour in a medium bowl. Combine sugar and lemon zest in a large bowl; using your fingertips, rub together until lemon sugar is well blended. 2) Add 1 cup butter to lemon sugar. Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat until mixture is light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating to blend between additions and occasionally scraping down sides and bottom of bowl with a rubber spatula, until mixture is light and very fluffy, about 4 minutes longer. 3) Reduce speed to low. Add dry ingredients in 3 additions, alternating with buttermilk in 2 additions, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Scrape batter into prepared pan; smooth top. 4) Bake cake until golden brown and beginning to pull away from sides of pan, 60-70 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes. Invert cake onto rack; remove pan and let cool completely. DO AHEAD: Cake can be made 2 days ahead. Store airtight at room temperature. 5) Combine preserves and lemon juice in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until glaze is reduced to 1/2 cup, 6-8 minutes. Strain glaze into a small pitcher or bowl; discard solids in strainer. Pour glaze over cooled cake and let sit for at least 10 minutes.

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