December 2, 2022
Gingerbread Bundt Cake!
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An easy but beautiful gingerbread bundt cake with the most delicious warming sponge, dusted with icing sugar – perfect for the festive season.
A deliciously warm and festive gingerbread bundt cake, that is a simple yet elegant showstopper for the Christmas baking season.
Gingerbread bakes
As we are now into December I feel like I can really push the idea of gingerbread even further than normal, and I hope you guys don’t mind. I am of course obsessed like always, but I just wanted to post something that is simple, yet elegant; and this cake achieves that.
My gingerbread NYC Cookies and my gingerbread millionaires are some of my favourite ginger bakes, but let’s be honest now – they’re all good. I recently made my caramel gingerbread cookie bars on stage, and they are a little life changing.
I’m not sure what it is, but I just adore the warm spiced flavour. It brings everything up a notch and just creates something wonderful.
Ginger cake
When it comes to ginger cakes, I have a variety on my blog. Usually they vary due to fitting different sized tins, such as my christmas gingerbread cake, my caramel ginger cake, and my gingerbread cupcakes. All the sponges are similar, but this gingerbread bundt cake is the same as my gingerbread loaf cake.
When you work with bundt tins, they can look quite big, and the sizes do vary slightly. However, because of the detail in the tins, the quantities of the loaf cake worked perfectly, and I didn’t want to mess with it. In the recipe you use:
- Butter – I used block butter for this bake, but a baking spread does work well.
- Sugar – I love the deep flavour of ginger cake, so used dark brown soft sugar, but light brown sugar works as well.
- Treacle – just like the sugar, I prefer using black treacle for my gingerbread for a deeper flavour, but you can use golden syrup.
- Flour – I use plain flour in this bake because the raising agent comes later with the bicarb and milk
- Spices – ground ginger and cinnamon create the intensely delicious flavour
- Eggs – medium eggs as always guys – but if you want to use large, you can use two large
- Milk – I use whole milk to prevent any splitting – full-fat products are always best in baking
- Raising agent – the bicarb reacts with the warm milk to create the perfect rise
Spices
As mentioned above I use ground ginger, and some ground cinnamon. You can of course use what you prefer though. Some gingerbread bakes work with some ground nutmeg added in, as it brings a new flavour of dreams, but I like this cake without.
I always use more ground ginger than anything in a ‘ginger’bread bake, but the cinnamon really does work wonders. If you want the flavours stronger or weaker, that’s totally fine and you can adapt to your preferences. If you like things even strong, you can add in some really finely chopped crystallised ginger if you wanted.
The Tin
When it comes to bundt cakes, the tin is SO IMPORTANT. And as you can see from the images, I have used a beauuuutiful forest bundt tin – which you can find here. I used the forest tin because I thought with a little dusting of icing sugar for decoration it looked very festive so easily.
The other tin I have used though is this gingerbread house bundt tin. Both work wonders. When baking with these tins, I always put them onto a tray in the oven just to make sure that they are level when baking.
To prep my bundt tin I spray a thick spray of 1cal oil spray all over the inside of the pan making sure not to miss anywhere. Then, I heavily dust the inside of the tin with flour. I tend to tap the flour through a sieve into the tin to make an even fine dusting of flour. Once all parts are covered, I turn the tin over and tap out any excess, and then the tin is ready.
Baking
Once you have poured your cake mix into the prepared tin, the baking is relatively easy – you just have to be patient as always. The bake timings are similar to a loaf cake as well, so it does take a fair amount of time to bake.
Once baked, the cake should be starting to come away from the edge of the tin, and if you carefully listen to the cake, it shouldn’t make a sound. If cakes need a bit of further baking, you can often hear bubbling and crackling sounds – this usually means it needs 5 more minutes.
Once baked, I leave the cake facing the same way up, to cool for 10 minutes, and then I turn it out. You don’t want to turn it out too quickly as it may fall apart, and you don’t want it to cool too much as it may get stuck.
Once out of the tin, let it cool, and then dust finely with icing sugar and enjoy.
Tips & Tricks
For this cake I used this cake tin – and it’s stunning.
This cake will last for 3-4+ days at room temp. It freezes well for 3+ months.
If you want a lighter flavour, use light brown soft sugar, and golden syrup, instead of the dark brown sugar and treacle.
Gingerbread Bundt Cake!
Ingredients
The Cake
- 225 g unsalted butter
- 225 g dark brown sugar
- 125 g black treacle
- 375 g plain flour
- 4 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 3 medium eggs
- 225 ml whole milk (warmed)
- 2 tsps bicarbonate of soda
Decoration
- 15 g icing sugar
Instructions
For the Cake
- Preheat your oven to 180ºc/160ºfan and grease and flour a 9 cup bundt tin (I used this one)
- In a pan, gently heat the butter, sugar and treacle together in a pan until smooth, allow to cool for 10 minutes!
- In a large bowl, add the flour, ginger and cinnamon together and pour in the treacle mix – stir to combine.
- Add in the eggs and stir to combine.
- Mix in the bicarbonate of soda and the warm milk
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin.
- Bake in the oven for 50mins-1 hour, or until baked through
- Once baked, leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, and then turn out to fully cool on a wire rack.
For the Decoration
- Dust the cooled cake with icing sugar and serve.
Notes
- I used this bundt tin
- This cake will keep in an airtight container for 3-4 days! The flavour keeps on getting better as the days go on.
- You could add some stem ginger to the recipe if you like when you beat in the egg!
- This cake is beautiful with a bit of custard, or a drizzle of cream, or just as it is.
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Hi,
Love all your recipes and looking forward to making this one for Christmas!
I just wanted to ask if I were to add stem ginger, how much? Thanks.
Hi Jane – so excited to try this recipe, I’ve tried lots of your other recipes and love them all! I only have a 10 cup bundt tin, would this still work and if so how long should I bake it for? Thank you 🙂
Hiya! About to make this – can I use self raising flour instead? Should i then remove bicarb?
Thanks 🙂
Lovely recipe and a great success. I used Flora plant B+tter & almond milk, due to a recent dairy intolerance & it’s turned out lovely. Highly recommend.
Thanks for this wonderful recipe. I just made it but it’s not gingery enough for me, any advice on how much stem ginger to add? X
Hiya! Try 25-50g, hope this helps! x
Hi Jane, just made this beautiful cake today. A-ma-zing…. Love it. Will definitely make again and again.
Hi,
I was hoping to bake something similar to this cake for Christmas – my family aren’t ginger fans but I really like the shape of the cake. I’m aware I can buy the shape tin to make it that shape but do you have any ideas of what flavour cake I could do or instructions? Thank you 🙂
Hiya! I have a goof few Bundt Cake recipes on my blog – just search ‘bundt’, hope this helps! x
Hello, just wanted to say thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I made it this evening. I followed your recipe step by step and the result is amazing!! My husband and three daughters love it so much!! I can see I’m going to bake this recipe regularly. I’m hoping i can have few slices for my lunch and share it to my colleagues.
Next time I will add ginger crystallised for more gingery flavour. 🙏😍
Absolutely fabulous recipe, always wanted to have a go at a Bundt cake and adore ginger cake so this ticked lots of boxes. As always with Jane’s recipes it didn’t disappoint 😊
do you have any recipes for william sonoma loaf pans,i think a regular recipe would be to much for pan-would rise to high,i have this pan and a few more.i know when you buy there pans in store they want you to buy the cake mix for that pan but you need to use your own recipes once in awhile.but i have not seen any recipes on line to solve this problem.can you help.
hiya! Try just filling the loaf tin 2/3 full for the best bake. Hope this helps! x
what is treacle,is it molasses.
Black treacle is similar to molasses. Hope this helps! x
That spicy aromatic Gingerbread Bundt cake looks absolutely gorgeous scrumptious 😋 the ginger cake is a must try for me to make I’m looking forward to making this as soon as I get the ingredients in it’s perfect for the Christmas day or at any or on any occasion especially when served with creme anglaise, ice-cream, brandy butter or plenty of fresh double cream poured over it delicious it makes a great alternative dessert for those who don’t want to have the traditional Christmas pudding or as a wonderful afternoon tea cake!
I haven’t got a Bundt tin can I make this delightful cake in a round cake pan if so how long should I cook it for please Jane?
Much appreciated many thanks for sharing your your wonderful recipe with us can I add nuts such as pecans, walnuts, Brazil’s, cashews and pistachios or would that alter the recipe far too much?
Scrumptious 😋🤤 another fantastic bake!
Hiya! Thank you so much – take a look at my gingerbread cake recipe! Hope this helps! x
Hi Jane, can this be frozen please x
Yes absolutely, for up to 3 months! Hope this helps! x
Can you use golden syrup instead of treacle?
Hiya! Yes, this should be fine! x