Super moist and fluffy strawberry bundt cake with a thick, flavor packed and pretty strawberry swirl hidden inside!
Another strawberry bundt cake recipe before we officially welcome fall! Need to put as many strawberries in our cakes as we can. Can't believe summer is almost ready to wrap itself up!
I can already feel fall in the chill of air. It's gonna be pumpkin time soon again! Yay!!! Tell me you too are a heavy pumpkin eater baker. Heavier than the largest pumpkin ever known! What? Are you not???
If you ask me about how I adore pumpkins. I baked and shot 5 pumpkin recipes in a matter of two short days. Told ya, I love pumpkins!!!
Okay but first, strawberry bundt cake. More specifically strawberry S-w-I-r-L-e-D bundt cake. Thick, sweet strawberry flavored swirl hiding inside a buttery, fluffy and not so dense bundt cake! Oh-so-delicious. My mouth is already watering!
Strawberry bundt cake swirl
Did you check that swirl out? So neat, swirly and full of juicy strawberry flavor!
It didn't come out like this at all in my first try. I desired maximum strawberry flavor and numerous swirls like this in my cake. Now is it too much to ask for?
And in my quest I ended up using more strawberry batter swirls in that first try.
Result?
Strawberry packed, moist, fluffy and flavorsome bake. But the swirls? Not so neat. Still amazing to taste. ⇑
But I could not stop here. I mean how could I! I only wanted that thick perfect strawberry swirl of my dreams. Without any compro on the flavor of-course!
So, I reduced the strawberry jam and did only two strawberry swirls in the whole cake. Like this:
- Layering vanilla batter
- Strawberry batter
- More vanilla batter
- Then, I layered the remaining strawberry batter like so ↓
And finally poured the remaining vanilla batter. And bake. Believe me it is really this easy!
Speaking of which you don't even need to cream your butter and sugar. Super heavy, dense and a ton of creamed butter recipes move aside! Make room for a light, fluffy, buttery, swirly-twirly and super easy strawberry bundt cake. No mixers required!
Did you notice how up it rose? Look up! ⇑♥⇑♥⇑ That's how light this bundt cake is! Now if you are looking for a richer, denser and a pound cake like bundt with a ton of pretty swirls try my small batch berry swirled vanilla pound cake instead.
Love fruity cakes? Then trying this readers' fave peach-berry crumb cake is a must!
Strawberry bundt cake with swirl
Ingredients
- 1 ½ Cup All purpose flour
- ½ tsp Baking soda (heaping)
- 2 ¼ tsp Baking powder
- ⅛ tsp Salt
- ½ Cup + 1 Tbsp Granulated sugar
- ¾ Cup Buttermilk
- (6 Tbsps)2 Eggs (medium)
- 3 Tbsp Butter melted
- 1 ½ tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 ½ Tbsp Strawberry Jam/preserves
- 2 Drops Pink food coloring (optional)
- ½ Cup Vanilla buttercream frosting
Instructions
- 1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (177°C) and grease/spray a 6 inches bundt pan with butter/oil.2. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together. Set aside.3. In a mixing bowl whisk together buttermilk, eggs and sugar till combined. Remember to use everything room temperature only. Now beat in your melted butter, vanilla in the mix.4. Slowly incorporate all the dry ingredients into wet and fold only till flour dissappears.5. Take about 3 tablespoons of batter out and add strawberry jam to it. Mix two drops of food coloring (if adding). Layer ⅓ of the vanilla batter first, then a strawberry batter layer, ⅓ of vanilla batter next, all the remaining strawberry batter (as shown in the pic) and finally the remaining vanilla batter.6. Bake it for about 35-40 minutes. The cake is ready when it passes tooth pick test. Take care not to over bake this one. Cool it for 10-15 minutes in the bundt pan. Cool down further on a wire rack before frosting.
Notes
Nutrition
This recipe is slightly adapted from the quotable kitchen.
This is such a beautiful cake! It looks really delicious and makes me starving! You've done a really good job in taking those pictures!
My son super loves eating strawberries. This will be a perfect recipe that I can try for him.
This cake is looking soft and mouthwatering. I'd love to try it.
A tasty cake with a tender heart and with my favorite fruit! Strawberries!
This looks so amazing yet so simple to make. It is a pity that I don't have a cake pan with that shape. Thanks for sharing.
This looks delicious! It's uncommon to see a strawberry cake so I'm excited to try this.
Omg! This cake looks so delicious, Strawberry cake if my favorite. I love the swirl it adds to its perfection. I can't wait to try this recipe, thank you for sharing.
I love this it looks so beautiful. This is so delicious and would love to make it.
Buttercream is my current favorite you know 😉 simple love your cakes. I am one by one bookmarking everything 😉 I wish to see some eggless baking recipes too
I'm in love with that swirl Neha! And I'm also looking forward to fall and all the pumpkin baking. Can't wait to see the recipes you'll be sharing!
What a stunning strawberry bundt cake Neha. This looks so delicious I just want to face plant it right now!
That swirl is just perfect! This one just screams summer, Neha! How delicious would this be right now with a big scoop of vanilla ice-cream? Pretty darn good if you ask me 😉
Vanilla ice-cream is the only way to go with this one Dawn! Thanks for stopping by. <3
This is such a beautiful cake...I love that pretty swirl!
Oh thank you Marcie!
How clever! I love this recipe! I have never thought to add a swirl like this to cake batter. I just picked up 12 punnets of strawberries because they were only $1/punnet, that's 3 kilos (like 6 pounds). Looking forward to using my homemade jam in this cake!
I hope you like it Marcellina! Wow that's such a steal. Homemade jam sounds so yum!
Love those lovely swirls and fluffy cake with strawberry love?!! Pinning for later!! xo
Oh Thanks a bunch Kim! <3
Oh my hot damn, the photos alone make me drool !!! You are a baking genius!
Pleased to hear this Gigi! <3
Neha, this is lovely! I can’t quite give up the summer fruits even though Fall is in the air here! Fortunately they are still in the grocery, too! Thanks for the recipe, I will PIN for later!
So can't I! Thanks for stopping by Laura. 🙂
Thanks you for this and not a premature pumpkin cake. I am holding onto berry season and summer! Beautiful cake
Thanks Patrick! I too am all about summer and summer desserts as of now!
I want to make this a 3 layer 9” would I need to triple the recipe?
Thanks,
Lesa
Yes you got that bit right Lesa. Same oven temperature though.
I was wise enough to subscribe 🙂 Thank you !
Thank you instead! <3
I love your food, always colourful, beautiful and tasty!