Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake - Recipes Food and Cooking (2024)

FAQs

Can you cook bundt cake in an angel food pan? ›

The cake may not rise properly, and an airy angel food or chiffon cake will stick in the intricate crevices of the pan, resulting in a messy-looking cake when you remove it. However, you can use a tube pan for recipes that call for a Bundt pan in many cases.

The bundt pan allows more of the cake to be in contact with the edges of the pan, and therefore the heat is transferred more evenly. If you put pound cake into a regular round cake pan, it will not cook in the center or it will burn on the edges.

Batter was mixed too long or not well enough:

If the batter wasn't mixed well enough, or if it was over-mixed, that could also produce a dry or dense cake.

That is a great question. Here are the directions for baking our Betty Crocker Angel Food cake mix in a 13 x 9" pan. You can use metal or glass for this recipe. Happy baking!

Do not grease the angel food cake tube pan (one in which the center tube is higher than the walls of pan and the bottom is removable.) You want the batter to cling to the side while it is rising. A greased pan will not allow the batter to rise.

“A bundt pan also has a hollow tube in the center – but it also usually has decorative sides, which nowadays can be very intricate – and is usually used for denser, oil- or butter-based batters,” says Norton. “All bundt pans are tube pans, but not all tube pans are bundt pans,” says Pendola.

When you remove your cake from the oven, don't flip it out of the pan right away! Instead, let the cake cool for ten minutes in the pan. Then, placing the wire rack over the base of the cake, invert the pan.

Sour cream is one of the fattiest dairy products; the extra fat content (for example, adding sour cream to a cake instead of milk) will make the cake moister and richer, says Wilk. "Fat, in any form (butter, lard, cream, etc.) shortens gluten strands, which essentially leads to the most tender baked goods," she adds.

Soak your cake in milk or cream.

Simply brush on a few tablespoons of milk or cream to the top of your dry cake or, for a truly indulgent finish, follow recipes like one-bowl tres leches poke cake, baked and soaked in a combination of whole milk, evaporated milk, and sweetened condensed milk.

Rebel bakers who flout the rules should know that using Pam on nonstick bundt pans without ruining them is all about the cleanup. First, after you've sprayed your pan with Pam and poured in your cake batter, take the time to carefully wipe off every bit of the excess Pam on the edges of the bundt pan.

Can you put 2 boxes of cake mix in a bundt pan? ›

A box cake mix can be baked in a Bundt cake pan, but if made in the 12 cup pan the cake will turn out a bit on the short side. Two boxes of cake mix will create a taller cake. Just be sure to only fill the cake pan until it is ⅔-¾ full. If there is any leftover batter use it to make cupcakes.

Really, you can bake a bundt cake recipe in any pan you have on hand! Muffin tins, bread loaf pans (two would be approximately equivalent to one bundt cake recipe), a 9x13 pan, etc. With all of these, you'll need to adjust the baking time quite a bit.

Bundt pans have fluted sides and are less ideal for a chiffon cake or angel food cake, but are otherwise pretty interchangeable with tube pans, according to Lolley.

Both dense and rich with a fine crumb texture, our pound cake can be made in an angel food pan, a fluted tube cake pan, or even in loaf pans. Use the pan(s) you own or borrow one from a neighbor or friend—you won't want to miss this cake.