Food Librarian

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Brown Sugar Bundt

I Like Big Bundts - Day #14

Happy Sunday! It's Day #14 of I Like Big Bundts, my 30 bundts in 30 days marathon of Bundts! This morning, I'm running in a 5K in Los Angeles!

The submission info can be found here! Just submit by November 24, 2011 and I'll send you a button for baking along with me!

This recipe appears on page 19 of Cake Simple by Christie Matheson. A bit about I Like Big Bundts is on page 82-83 of the book and Christie printed my favorite Fuyu Persimmon Bundt recipe. If you enjoy bundts, you should get this cookbook filled with Bundt recipes!!!

The cake is really simple to put together and I'm sure you have all the ingredients sitting in your kitchen right now. So, go ahead, get up and make it! I'll wait. And take a photo and send it me for the round-up of I Like Big Bundts!

This cake is DELICIOUS. Totally soft and lovely. You should definitely make this lovely, lovely bundt.

I made this in the Nordic Ware/Williams Sonoma Heritage Bundt pan. It's one of my favorites. You can get it online through Williams Sonoma, in the store (although it says it is "online only", I've seen it in every WS I've visited), and on Amazon. (Dude, do you have Amazon Prime? $80 a year for 2-day shipping with no minimum purchase? I love it...sometimes too much, but it's fab.)

Have a great Sunday and we'll see you again tomorrow! Happy Pre-Halloween! - mary the food librarian

Recap of I Like Big Bundts 3:
Day #1: Buttercake Bakery's Marble Bundt Cake
Day #2: Lemon Bliss Bundt
Day #3: Double-Chocolate Bundt Cake with Ganache Glaze
Day #4: Spice Bundt Cake with Brown Butter Vanilla Bean Glaze
Day #5: Gingery Pumpkin Breakfast Bundt
Day #6: Maida Heatter's Budapest Coffee Cake Bundt
Day #7: Dark Chocolate Bundt
Day #8: Banana Chocolate Chip Bundt
Day #9: Apple Spice Bundt
Day #10: Pumpkin Spice Bundt
Day #11: Doll Bundt Cake
Day #12: Light Chocolate Bundt with Coffee Glaze
Day #13: Spiced Cranberry Bundt

Recipe: Click here for printable recipe
Adapted from Cake Simple by Christie Matheson

Bundt Pan: Nordic Ware Heritage Bundt Pan

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Spiced Sweet Potato Bundt with Brown Sugar Icing

Dude! It's Day #28 of I Like Big Bundts! The Food Librarian brings you 30 Bundts in 30 Days. National Bundt Day is right around the corner. Monday! Do you have a Bundt in the oven? (Hum...that sounds kinda personal.) Let me just say that I hope you make a Bundt to celebrate National Bundt Day!

Today I have the perfect Bundt for Thanksgiving or after Thanksgiving. Every grocery store is going to sell yams and sweet potatoes for pennies, so pick up some extra to make this yummy bundt.

Last year, I made a sweet potato bundt that used grated, raw sweet potatoes. This recipe from Bon Appetit uses cooked, mashed potatoes. Kirbie from Kirbie's Cravings suggested making this Bundt.

You need about 2 medium sized red sweet potatoes to make 2 cups. I bought some “white” and “orange” (often called a yam) sweet potatoes but ATE them instead of saving them for this recipe. I love sweet potatoes! So, this recipe ended up with one orange flesh and one white flesh.

Thanks to my friend JustJenn for making this logo!

The glaze is a slightly caramelized brown sugar topping. You boil butter, brown sugar and cream in a pot for 3 minutes. Pour over powdered sugar and whisk together. You are supposed to wait 15 minutes for it to cool off to the right consistency…but I needed to get to work so I threw it over an ice bath and kept whisking.

You should try this recipe! The cake is really good. Soft and not too sweet (my favorite). And if you have leftover yams/sweet potatoes this Thanksgiving, you have a good home for them.

If you make a Bundt for National Bundt Day, I'll send you a JustJennDesign's I Like Big Bundts button! Head over to JustJenn's site for her free shipping (ends on Sunday)! They are small and stylin'.

You will need to email me: (1) Link to your blog post (I will use one photo from your post for the round-up) or (2) One JPG photo if you don't have a blog, (3) Your name (that you want published on the blog) and title of your Bundt (4) Mailing address for the button (including your full name for mailing). You have until Monday, November 22nd to send me the information, so feel free to post on actual National Bundt Day (Nov 15th). Please don't rummage through your archives for an old Bundt, you need to bake something fresh for National Bundt Day to qualify for the button (doesn't have to be a new recipe, just something made this month please :) Your family, friends and co-workers will thank you! :)

Need Bundt recipe ideas?
I Like Big Bundts 2009 (30 different recipes listed here!)
I Like Big Bundts 2010

Whoo hoo! Two more days! Come on back tomorrow for another Bundt - mary the food librarian

Recipe:
from Bon Appetit November 2000 (on Epicurious)
Spiced Sweet-Potato Cake with Brown Sugar Icing

Notes: I added the vanilla when I added the eggs, not after the flour mixture. As I mentioned, I had one cup each of white and orange flesh color sweet potatoes.