BABY BUNDT CAKES RECIPES

Steps:

• Make the batter: Heat oven to 325°F. Lightly coat two 6-cup mini-bundt pans with softened butter, dust with flour, and tap out excess. Set aside. Sift the flour, baking soda, salt, and five-spice powder together in a large bowl. Cream the butter and sugar, using an electric mixer set on high speed, until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Reduce speed to low and add the eggs and yolks one at a time, fully incorporating with each addition. Mix in the vanilla. Alternately add the flour mixture and sour cream, in thirds, beginning and ending with the flour. Mix on medium-low speed until fully incorporated. Bake the cakes: Divide the batter evenly among the molds, filling each about 3/4 full. Bake on the middle rack of the oven until the tops spring back when lightly touched and a tester inserted in the center of one cake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Let cool on a rack for 20 to 25 minutes. Unmold the cakes and serve slightly warm or at room temperature with whipped cream and fresh strawberries. (Cakes can also be stored wrapped individually in plastic wrap and in an airtight container for up to 3 days.)

Steps:

• Prepare Cake: Preheat oven to 325°F Spray two 6-cake mini Bundt pans with baking spray.
• Blend flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, butter, the 2 tablespoons lemon peel, the 1/3 cup lemon juice, the eggs and the 1-1/2 tablespoons poppy seed in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed until combined. Increase speed to medium; beat 3 minutes. Pour batter evenly into prepared pans. Bake 45 minutes or until wooden pick inserted near centre comes out clean. Let cool 10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire rack; cool completely.
• Prepare Glaze: Whisk together confectioners' sugar, the 1 tablespoon lemon peel, the 3 tablespoons lemon juice and the 1 teaspoon poppy seeds until smooth. Add water by the half teaspoon to desired consistency. Spoon over cooled cakes.
• Cook's Tips: If you have only one 6-cake mini Bundt pan, bake the first six mini cakes. After removing cakes from pan, make sure pan is cooled and washed before using again with remaining batter. To make one large cake, use a 12-cup Bundt pan. Bake in a preheated 350°F oven for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in centre comes out clean.
• Additional recipe ideas and more information about Pam Baking can be found online at www.pam.ca.