Vanilla Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

An easy to make cake vanilla cream cheese bundt cake with the added richness of cream cheese in both the batter and the decadent vanilla glaze.

Vanilla Cream Cheese Bundt Cake.

Originally published January 2013.

Vanilla lovers are a much quieter by nature kinda folks.

They don’t need to constantly shout about their flavour passion like some chocolate lovers do. (Oops! Points finger at self.)

Vanilla Cream Cheese Bundt Cake, just out of the oven.

This recipe is for them especially if they like the added richness and flavour that cream cheese brings to a cake batter.

I make a couple of fruitcakes during the Christmas season that use cream cheese in the batter. It’s always those that my holiday guests seem to favour most.

With that in mind, I reminded myself over the Christmas season to try a simple bundt cake. I used a variation of one of those delicious cake batters and it worked out exceptionally well.

Vanilla Cream Cheese Bundt Cake.

If you are a cake batter bowl licker this one’s for you too. The batter is so rich, creamy and absolutely luscious, you’ll want to eat it by the spoonful.

This cake recipe can also be baked in two loaf pans if you don’t have a bundt pan. It may be time to invest in one if you don’t.

this recipe baked up absolutely perfectly in my pan.

Notes on ingredients.

In recipes like these, with just a few simple ingredients, the quality of those ingredients matters even more.

Two ingredients in particular are given big importance here. First the vanilla should be real. 

I’ve recently started making my own vanilla extract from fresh vanilla beans I get from an excellent Canadian online supplier. That’s an unpaid endorsement based upon the fantastic freshness, quality, and flavour of their product and very personal customer service.

Madagascar vanilla beans from Canadian Spice Supply.

And as always, Only real dairy butter is butter. The combination of real vanilla, real butter and sugar is where most baking magic starts. Don’t ever compromise on either.

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Vanilla Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

Yield: 16 slices

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 50 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Vanilla takes a back seat to no cake in this rich, moist and very flavorful cream cheese bundt cake, made totally indulgent with a generous amount of vanilla cream cheese glaze.

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Ingredients

For the cake batter

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• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 8 oz cream cheese, one standard Philadelphia brand block
• 1 cup butter
• 3 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 4 eggs
• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup cake flour
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder

For the Vanilla Cream Cheese Glaze

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• 2 cups icing sugar
• 4 ounces cream cheese, 1/2 a standard Philadelphia brand block
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 2-3 tsp milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. Cream together well, the sugar, cream cheese, butter and vanilla extract.
3. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. Sift together the all-purpose flour, cake flour and baking powder.
5. Gently fold dry ingredients into the creamed mixture until the flour is fully incorporated.
6. Bake in well greased and floured bundt pan or two parchment lined loaf pans at 325 degrees F for about 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
7. Cool on wire rack. Frost with Vanilla Cream Cheese Glaze.

To make the Vanilla Cream Cheese Glaze

1. Beat all ingredients together very well in an electric mixer until very smooth. Add more or less milk to get the glaze to the proper consistency which should be relatively thick but not quite pourable.
2. Spoon and swirl the glaze on top of the cake and let it drip down naturally.

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Nutrition Information

Yield

16

Serving Size

1 slice
Amount Per Serving Calories 390Total Fat 20gSaturated Fat 12gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 99mgSodium 223mgCarbohydrates 48gFiber 0gSugar 33gProtein 5g

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

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