I absolutely love baking a beautiful Raspberry Lemon Bundt Cake with the freshest and most flavorful ingredients! This cake is easy and comes out perfect every time! If you love cake, don’t miss my 50 Best Cake Recipes!
Lemon Bundt Cake
There is something so pure and delicious about a from-scratch lemon cake! But paired with fresh raspberries and you have culinary magic. If you are in a time-crunch, you can certainly substitute box-mix but I would recommend doubling the lemon zest used.
How to Make a Raspberry Lemon Bundt Cake
lemon cake recipe (below)
raspberry glaze recipe (below)
bundt pan
powerful blender or food processor
cake stand
Raspberry Glaze
This is one of my favorite parts of this cake. Not only is it poured on top and soaks into the beautiful lemon cake crust, but it is poured over the cake while it is still warm in the pan! This creates a flavor explosion!
I prepared my raspberry glaze first and then allowed it to chill in the refrigerator until I was ready to add it to the cake.
I also added 1/4 of the glaze to my lemon cake right out of the oven. This really allowed that intense raspberry sweetness to soak into the cake, adding moisture in addition to that extra depth of flavor.
I garnished this cake with a few fresh raspberries and some fresh lemon zest. Another way to garnish this cake is to add 1 package of the Driscoll’s raspberries to the center of the bundt. Then garnish with lemon zest and powdered sugar.
If you want to pack more of a lemon punch to this cake, try adding 2 teaspoons of fresh lemon zest to the batter.
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Raspberry Lemon Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Lemon Cake
- ¾ cup (170g) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1½ cups (300g) granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs, room temperature
- 2½ cups (285g) cake flour
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2½ teaspoons (12g) baking powder
- 1¼ cups (300g) milk, room temperature
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons lemon extract
- 1¼ cups (6 ounces) raspberries
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, for sifting raspberries
- 1 tablespoons fresh lemon zest, for garnish
Raspberry Glaze
- 1 package (6 ounces or 1 1/4 cups) raspberries, save a few for garnish
- 3 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- ¼ cup (60g) heavy whipping cream, room temperature
- 2-3 cups (250-375g) confectioners' sugar
Instructions
Lemon Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and butter and flour (or use pan release) a bundt pan.
- In a medium-sized bowl add the flour, baking powder, and salt. Whisk or sift then set aside.
- Beat the softened butter in stand mixer until light in color, about 1-3 minutes. Gradually add the sugar and mix on medium speed 4 to 5 minutes until it is light and fluffy.
- With the mixer on low, add the eggs one at a time. Add the milk, oil, and lemon extract and mix until incorporated.
- Add the flour mixture and mix on medium-low until combined, do not over mix.
- Remove bowl from stand mixer and stir raspberries in by hand. Reserve a few to sprinkle over batter once it is in the pan.
- Pour the batter into the bundt pan.
- Sprinkle remaining raspberries over top.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. (Start watching at 30 minutes.)
- Right out of the oven add about 1/4 cup of the Raspberry Glaze to the cake in the pan. Spread with a spatula and allow into soak in for about 15 minutes. After glaze has soaked in turn out onto a cake stand and cool to room temperature.
Raspberry Glaze
- Add fresh raspberries to a powerful blender or food processor.
- Add in cream cheese and heavy cream and blend until smooth.
- With the blender (or food processor) on low, add in powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time. You want your glaze to be pourable, so stop the blender every cup or so and test to make sure it's the right consistency.
- Chill until ready to serve.
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That sounds good and looks great
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How do I make with a boxed lemon cake mix? Any thing special I have to do differenly other than the directions on the box?
Has anyone made it with the box?
I wonder if we could use other berries…Black berries,strawberries,saskatoon berries or blueberries
I made this!! I haven’t tried it yet. It’s cooling. I cheated though. I used a white cake mix, lemon juice instead of water, 3eggs, and melted butter following measurements on the box. Also, I added the grated rind of a lemon. Folded in the flour dusted raspberries and baked it. It looks perfect! Now to add the glaze on top. Which tastes amazing. One note about that. There wasn’t enough moisture in the raspberries, cream cheese, and cream to make it pourable. I added lemon juice along with 2 cups of powdered sugar to get the right consistency.
Can this be frozen
I was planning to make a blueberry lemon bundt for my Mom’s birthday and came across this recipe. Can I substitute blueberries in the glaze? I also plan to put a few more berries into the cake batter. Any thoughts?
I made this over the weekend – the flavor was wonderful – next time I will add the extra lemon zest to the cake mix. The only issue I had is the cake came out very dense and I am not sure why.
Do you let the glaze soak into bottom of cake since it is still in bundt pan . When do you take it out of pan?
This turned out perfectly! It is so pretty and so easy! I think I will try it with blueberries or blackberries next time.