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vanilla bundt cake recipe with blackberry swirls

Published May 3, 2018 Last Modified November 3, 2022 By GreedyEats

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Super moist and buttery vanilla bundt cake with flavorsome berry swirls inside. The cake is topped with gooey vanilla icing!

Moist and delicious vanilla bundt cake slice

Do you like pound cakes? My relation has been very on and off with these dense, rich and heavy on the butter cakes. I only like a bundt cake when it has a great flavor or hides marvelous swirls of some sorts. Just like this. Oh and also chocolate! Marble cakes are my favorite!

vanilla bundt cake recipe with berry swirls and vanilla icing

IS THIS VANILLA BUNDT CAKE RECIPE ANY DIFFERENT

It of course is. Lets find out how!

Most bundt cakes use a ton of butter/margarine as fat. It sure packs a lot of texture to the pound cakes. But pound cakes of those kind lack flavor for sure.

So what do we do?

We want our bundt to have the soft texture that butter imparts. But we need something little extra to recover from the flavor loss.

Moist and buttery vanilla bundt cake
vanilla bundt cake recipe with berry swirls

I have replaced some of the butter in the recipe with clarified butter. Yes you heard me right! It adds an enormous amount of flavor to the cake. Wait till you bake it for yourself.

Also a little lemon zest and juice goes in. Don't worry you wont taste any lemon in the cake. It instead is very vanilla, berryyyy and super buttery in every bite!

Buttery and moist vanilla bundt cake with berry swirls

Also we have to chat about these beautiful swirls. What do you think? Aren't these lovely? How did I get them so thick? I call them animal print berry swirls. Don't they look like one?

Layering this vanilla bundt cake was the most fun bit. And these swirls are only what makes this bundt cake even more pretty!

I used homemade blackberry jam/preserves and added it to some of the cake batter. Also added two small drops of purple food coloring. This is totally optional.

Lets have a look at how we are going to layer this beautiful cake.

vanilla bundt cake recipe in the making
vanilla bundt cake batter
vanilla bundt cake layering

Image in the middle is second layer of this vanilla bundt cake recipe. You see when we demould our cake, this layer becomes the top berry layer. Spread it nice and wide.

For the third layer, I swirled vanilla batter into berry batter to reveal all those thick and distinct swirls.

Alternate the layers vanilla and berry batter till your purple batter lasts. And that's how we get those marble like swirls and a super heightened cake!

This extra step doesn't take much time and is totally worth the effort!

Spread the remaining vanilla batter on top and bake!

vanilla bundt cake with blackberry swirls

And how does this taste? Well, I and Pranay polished off this giant cake in two short days! That explains it all.

Feel free to grab this recipe while I am off to shed some calories. Silent sob!

You need to try this Chocolate Marble Cake next!

Buttery and moist vanilla bundt cake with berry swirls

Vanilla bundt cake with blackberry swirls

Super moist and buttery vanilla bundt cake with flavorsome berry swirls inside. The cake is topped with gooey vanilla icing!
5 from 10 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Servings 10 Slices
Calories: 386kcal
Author: Neha

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ Cups (180 gms) Cake flour
  • ¾ Cups (150 gms) Sugar
  • ¼ Cup (49 gms) Clarified butter
  • ½ Cup (115 gms) Softened butter (salted)
  • 3 Large eggs
  • 1 Tbsp Lemon juice
  • 1 tsp Lemon Zest
  • ¾ tsp Baking powder
  • ¾ tsp Baking soda
  • 2 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 3 Tbsps (60 gms) Blackberry jam/preserves (seedless)
  • 2 drops Purple food coloring (optional)

Vanilla Icing (Optional)

  • 1 cup (120g) Confectioners' sugar
  • 3 Tablespoons Heavy cream
  • ½ tsp Vanilla Extract

Instructions

  • 1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (177°C) and grease/spray a 6 inches bundt pan.
    2. Sift cake flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together. Set aside.
    3. In a large mixing bowl whisk butter, clarified butter and sugar till it gets light. About 3-4 minutes. Add egg one at a time and beat well after each addition.
    4. Add vanilla, lemon zest and juice. Mix them in. Add flour in two additions and fold to combine. The batter will be thick. Do not over mix.
    5. Take about 6 tablespoons of batter out and add jam to it. Add two drops of food coloring. Layer the purple batter with vanilla in three-four additions (as shown in process pictures).
    6. Bake for about 35-40 minutes. The cake is ready when it passes the tooth pick test. Cool it for 10-15 minutes in the bundt pan. Cool down further on a wire rack before glazing.
    For the icing-
    Mix and whisk all the ingredients together until smooth. Glaze the cake right before serving. As this icing sets on the cake as time passes. If you ask me it is best enjoyed fresh!

Notes

  1. Don't skimp on the beating time of butter and sugar. We really need to get this mixture light and airy. It's air, that is beaten into mixture which makes our cake rise along with the leaveners.
  2. Don't overmix the batter after adding flour. Just mix until flour disappears in the batter.
  3. You can use any jam/preserves you prefer. How about strawberry? Oh and raspberry? or even peach!
  4. You could replace clarified butter with butter, But I recommend using clarified. It enhances the cake flavor many folds!
  5. If adding salted butter, skip salt. If going for unsalted butter add, ⅛ tsp salt to dry ingredients.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Slice | Calories: 386kcal
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  1. Darcy Connolly-Brunner

    May 08, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    5 stars
    It says add salt, but how much?

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 09, 2021 at 4:43 pm

      Hi! I just corrected that. If using unsalted butter, add 1/8th tsp salt else skip it. Happy Baking!

      Reply
  2. Ari

    January 21, 2021 at 11:04 am

    5 stars
    Just made this yesterday! I didn't have cake flour so I mixed all-purpose flour with corn starch and sifted it twice to make my own cake flour.
    Cake flour when you only have All Purpose:
    (Take 1 cup of all purpose flour, remove 2 tablespoons of the flour and then insert 2 tablespoons of cornstarch, sift twice) [ Repeat for the next cup]

    I also had to substitute white vinegar with the lemon juice (realized last minute I didn't have any!)

    The clarified butter definitely had its desired effect!

    The cake was very moist and flavorful! Sadly, my swirls weren't nearly as gorgeous as your photos, but the taste was great!

    Thank you for this lovely recipe!

    Reply
  3. K

    September 12, 2020 at 3:26 pm

    How much salt?

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      September 13, 2020 at 11:14 am

      Since I used salted butter, I didn't use any. You may add upto a generous pinch if adding unsalted butter.

      Reply
  4. Angie

    May 09, 2018 at 10:52 am

    5 stars
    Beautiful cake Neha! Very neat swirls

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 09, 2018 at 3:35 pm

      Thanks Angie!

      Reply
  5. Tracy | Baking Mischief

    May 08, 2018 at 12:21 pm

    5 stars
    Those swirls are so dreamy! I love making poundcake, but I've never added fruit swirls like this. Definitely trying it next time!

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 08, 2018 at 3:50 pm

      Thanks Tracy! And they taste yum too.

      Reply
  6. Priya

    May 08, 2018 at 11:23 am

    5 stars
    I am not good at baking but I always love to bake. Can you share the eggs alternative please? We don't eat eggs thats why 🙂

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 08, 2018 at 5:00 pm

      Hi Priya! For this recipe you can try egg replacer powder. I haven't tried it yet, but I suppose it should work just fine. Do report back how it turned out, if you do. 🙂

      Reply
      • Anonymous

        February 03, 2022 at 1:04 pm

        If we don't use eggs in this recipes. What can we use in it because I am vegetarian and can we use refined .

      • GreedyEats

        February 03, 2022 at 5:50 pm

        I am sorry, I have not tried to bake this one without eggs!

  7. [email protected]

    May 08, 2018 at 8:26 am

    5 stars
    I need to go out right now and buy a bundt pan just to be able to make this Neha. I am inspired! Such a pretty cake with lovely layers. A work or art!

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 08, 2018 at 4:57 pm

      Oh I am more than sure you will enjoy baking pound cakes. So easy and fun! Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
  8. Mimi

    May 08, 2018 at 8:01 am

    Just gorgeous! It's been years since I made a marbled cake, and this may just be the next one I make!

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 08, 2018 at 5:01 pm

      So glad to know you liked it Mimi. <3

      Reply
  9. 2pots2cook

    May 06, 2018 at 4:00 am

    5 stars
    Love the swirls and the combination of flavours ! Thank you Neha !

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 06, 2018 at 11:04 am

      I am gratified to know you like it. 🙂

      Reply
  10. Kristine

    May 04, 2018 at 2:03 pm

    5 stars
    I tried this recipe today and it came out great. Thank you for the wonderful share Neha!

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 04, 2018 at 3:47 pm

      Glad to know you enjoyed it Kristine!

      Reply
  11. D. Wallace Peach

    May 04, 2018 at 12:29 pm

    How pretty and festive, Neha. Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
  12. Nisha

    May 04, 2018 at 12:09 pm

    5 stars
    Such a beautiful and awesome cake crafted so well! Great work Neha!!

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 05, 2018 at 6:06 pm

      Thanks Nisha!

      Reply
  13. Angie Schneider

    May 04, 2018 at 12:05 am

    Gorgeous berry marbling! The cake looks bakery perfect.

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 04, 2018 at 9:45 am

      I am honored Angie!

      Reply
  14. Ginny M

    May 03, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    5 stars
    Awesome recipe! I just bought a bundt pan and can't wait to try this out.

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 04, 2018 at 9:45 am

      I am sure you will love this cake Ginny!

      Reply

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