Café-style Bundt Cake
This recipe is highly tested and has been circulating on the web for years, and I’ve finally had the chance to try it, a really tall and soft bundt cake that won’t make you miss the café! It disappears quickly at my house!
This super high and super soft café-style bundt cake is suitable for a healthy breakfast because it’s butter-free, and if you want, you can use high oleic seed oil which has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antitumor properties and is useful for lowering cholesterol (see notes at the end of the article) and has a neutral taste.
If desired, you can also add to the batter 4 apples sliced thinly, seasoned with sugar and cinnamon.
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 8People
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients for the Café-style Bundt Cake
- 3 cups All-purpose flour (preferably sifted, I use Caputo Pastry)
- 6 Eggs (at room temperature)
- 2/3 cup Whole milk
- 1/2 cup Vegetable oil (preferably high oleic seed oil, see notes at the end of the article)
- 1 3/4 cups Sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract (or 2 packets of vanillin, or 1 of cinnamon according to taste)
- 1 packet Baking powder
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 Lemon zest (optional)
- to taste Sugar sprinkles (optional)
Tools
- Bowl
- Stand mixer Kenwood, Bowl 7 L, 1400 W Power
- or hand whisk
- Bundt pan
Preparation of the Café-style Bundt Cake
Separate the egg whites from the yolks and sift the flour with the packet of baking powder.
Beat the yolks with the sugar in a stand mixer with a wire whisk (or with electric beaters) for at least 15 minutes.
Whip the egg whites to soft peaks (firm, but not too stiff).
Add to the yolk and sugar mixture: the milk, the vegetable oil, the pinch of salt, the vanilla (or cinnamon), and the grated lemon zest (optional).
Finally, very gently add first the flour (sifted with the baking powder) and then with a hand whisk, fold in the whipped egg whites, always very gently to avoid deflating the mixture.
Butter and flour a bundt pan about 10 inches in diameter, and at least 4 inches tall (I used a chiffon cake pan) and sprinkle with sugar sprinkles (optional) and gently pour in the batter.
Bake the bundt cake in a preheated oven at 356°F for about 35 minutes (depends on your oven).
Unmold the bundt cake and let it cool.
It’s very soft, so it keeps under a glass dome, for up to 3 days.
Notes and Tips
To prepare this healthy butter-free bundt cake, I used high oleic sunflower seed oil, which – unlike all other oils (except extra virgin) – does not contain polyunsaturated fats, which are very harmful and are also found in many industrial products (snacks, crackers, etc.).
Oleic acid is indeed a monounsaturated fatty acid that has various interesting features: it is useful for providing the body with those precious substances known as omega-3 and omega-6 and for reducing bad cholesterol in the blood.
High oleic sunflower oil also boasts antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antitumor properties and is ideal for consumption raw in salads, in desserts (instead of butter) because it has a neutral flavor, and finally, it is perfect for frying as it has a high smoke point.
Shopping Tips!!!
To achieve a bundt cake this tall, the pan is very important, I used this chiffon cake pan.
I used this High oleic sunflower seed oil, tasteless and odorless, rich in monounsaturated fatty acids that help maintain normal cholesterol levels in the blood, ideal in desserts (instead of butter) because it has a neutral flavor.
To store cakes and cookies perfectly, I use this elegant glass stand with a sturdy glass dome, or this other equally beautiful and elegant glass stand.
To knead perfectly and give structure to doughs, I use my Titanium Chef Patissier XL Stand Mixer with 7L illuminated bowl, 1400 power, integrated scale and blender, a loyal kitchen ally for kneading, weighing, whipping, cooking, chopping, and pasteurizing eggs.
If you’re looking for a more affordable and smaller stand mixer with a 5-liter bowl, you can comfortably choose to buy the Kenwood Titanium Baker Stand Mixer, with integrated scale and 1200 W power.
You can also bake this bundt cake directly on your stove with the Versilia oven.
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