Dine and Dish

Bundt cakes always get a bad rap for being boring. When I think of bundt cakes, I think of little old ladies and their church pot luck suppers. Bundt cakes seem to be all over the place at those events.  People seem to like bundt cakes, but they rarely get the ooohhh's and ahhhhh's they deserve. Is it the lack of frosting that gives them their less than stellar appeal? Is it that they tend to be a simple, dense cake without a lot of flavor variation? I really do not know what the reason is, but I am here today to change your mind and to convince you to give the simple little bundt cake another chance.

I needed to make a cake this weekend for a party we were having. For some reason, I had it in my mind that I wanted to make some kind of bundt cake. As I was browsing through my recipes at home I could not find anything that stood out. I did not want boring... I wanted a cake that people would leave asking the recipe for. After an unsuccessful attempt browsing through my own recipes, I decided to turn to Recipezaar. I typed in "Bundt Cake" and a zillion recipes popped up. I sorted the recipes by rating and as soon as I did that a recipe for an "Irish Cream Bundt Cake" popped up. I opened it up and started reading the reviews. People loved this bundt cake! With 23 high star reviews and all of the ingredients right in my pantry, I knew I found the recipe I would be using for my bundt cake.

This cake is amazing. AMAZING! I am not exaggerating when I say this. The Irish cream comes through nice and strong and the texture of the cake is true to bundt cake form...dense, moist and delicious.  I think we could all pull together with this recipe and change the reputation of bundt cakes around the world. We could start a movement to put bundt cakes on the "Hot List". Bundt cakes could become one of "Oprah's Favorite Things". Some hot celebrity would sign on to be the Bundt Cake activist. It may take some time for bundt cake to become cool. I suggest that you become a trendsetter now and give this recipe a try. Pass it around to your friends and neighbors and people will come around. Trust me.

Irish Cream Bundt Cake