Strawberry Donut Pound Cake
This Strawberry Donut Pound Cake is moist, dense, buttery and sweet. It's topped with a naturally colored pastel pink strawberry glaze and natural rainbow sprinkles for a play on your favorite pink donut! Try this delicious Strawberry Donut Pound Cake for brunch this weekend.
If you love cake as much as I do, make sure to check out other favorites like Traditional Butter Pound Cake Loaf, Chocolate Donut Pound Cake, Strawberry Snack Cake, or Birthday Bundt Cake.
A Quick Look At The Recipe
- Recipe Name: Strawberry Donut Pound Cake
- Ready In: 2 hours 45 minutes
- Makes: 12 servings
- Main Ingredients: salted butter, cane sugar, cake flour, powdered sugar
- Flavor Profile: buttery, sweet, strawberry
- Dietary Info: no seed oils
- Difficulty: Medium
- Why You’ll Love It: looks and tastes like a giant pink donut with sprinkles
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Buttery and Dense: I love pound cake because of its buttery and dense texture. This homemade pound cake has the perfect amount of sweetness, along with a dense and tender crumb.
- Bundt Cake: This Strawberry Donut Pound Cake is a bundt cake, making it especially stunning! While a bunt cake may look impressive, it's really quite easy to make.
- Simple Ingredients: Pound cakes have very few ingredients, which is why they taste so pure and delicious. This one combines just the classics, butter, sugar, eggs, milk, and flour and it makes the most incredible cake!
- Organic Cake: I use organic ingredients in this simple bundt cake along with sprinkles made with plant based dyes. This organic cake is so much better than anything you'd buy at a store!
This naturally pink cake is made with organic strawberry powder so it's free of artificial colors! It's reminiscent of your favorite pink donut, but in bundt cake form! This makes a perfect celebration cake for any party!
If you are looking for more pink cake recipes, check out Strawberry Vanilla Layer Cake, Strawberry Snack Cake, Strawberry Almond Cake, or Raspberry Lemon Snack Cake. Or, check out the Birthday Bundt Cake!
Ingredients
- Butter: I use Organic Valley Salted Butter in this recipe, be sure to use a sweet cream butter. If you are using unsalted butter, be sure to add 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the recipe. Check out the Best Salted Butter for Baking for more butter info on the best butter for cakes.
- Milk: I use organic whole milk, which is key for baking as the fat provides flavor.
- Eggs: Make sure to use organic large eggs. If you use eggs that are too small (medium) it can dry out cake batter, eggs that are too large (extra large) will cause batter to be too wet and the cake could sink.
- Cake Flour: I use my Homemade Organic Cake Flour, but store bought also works. This is what gives it a very tender crumb.
- Strawberry Powder: I use organic freeze dried strawberry powder in the glaze to provide flavor and also color it naturally!
- Sprinkles: I top this cake with India Tree Nature's Colors Carnival Mix Sprinkles, which are all made with plant based dyes. These are optional.
*For a full list of ingredients and measurements, visit the recipe card below.
Baker's Tips for Strawberry Donut Pound Cake
- Use a high quality bundt pan so it's easy to remove your cake. My favorite is the USA Pan.
- Use soft butter. I like to leave the butter out on the counter overnight and then bake with it the next day. This allows it to soften at room temperature, which is always best. If you must microwave it, don't do more than 10 seconds at a time.
- Use high quality butter, sugar, milk, and flour. This is a very simple cake with only a few ingredients – so they all really matter! I prefer to use organic ingredients all the time, but if you waffle this is a cake where it would be worth it.
- Use whole milk. Always use whole milk when making cakes as it provides fat and flavor.
- Grease the bundt pan well! Use a cooking spray, this helps tremendously over butter.
- Do not grease your pan and let it sit there, the grease will start to fall down the sides and will pool at the bottom of the pan. You always want to spray it very well right before you are ready to pour the batter in. Spray it and then immediately pour the batter in.
- Make sure to store this in a cake dome so it doesn't dry it. It will stay good for days if it's kept in a dome or in an airtight container.
How to Make Strawberry Donut Pound Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter, sugar and vanilla extract.
- Add in the eggs and mix on low until combined. Scrape down the side of the bowl and mix again until combined.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the cake flour and sea salt. Add in the cake flour mixture and milk, alternating each and beginning and ending with the cake flour.
- Mix on low until combined. Scrape sides of bowl and mix again on low until combined.
- Grease a 10 inch bundt pan well with butter. Pour the cake batter into the bundt pan.
- Bake for 1 hour 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. (Make sure to check the Notes at the bottom of the recipe for high altitude baking instructions). Once cake is cooled, remove it from the bundt pan, carefully.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the powdered sugar, milk, and strawberry powder. Whisk together until combined into a smooth glaze. Place cake on a cake stand, and drizzle the frosting over the top of the cake so it runs down both sides. Sprinkle the top of the frosting with rainbow sprinkles.
Recipe FAQ's
Pound cake is special because of it's texture. It's dense and buttery, where regular cake is more light and fluffy. I also believe that pound cake is sweeter and you get a really golden brown and buttery crust which gives you so much more flavor than regular cake.
Pound cake is best stored in an airtight container to retain it's soft and dense texture. I prefer to store pound cake under a cake dome, but a tupperware will work too!
Brunch Inspiration
If you're hosting a brunch, this Strawberry Donut Pound Cake is a show stopping centerpiece! Add these other brunch favorites to your spread!
- Fluffy Scrambled Eggs With Sour Cream are a protein packed dish that's great to go along with sweets.
- Try making an Iced Blueberry Latte bar with Homemade Blueberry Syrup so people can make their own lattes.
- Add in Sourdough Strawberry Pop Tarts for another take on a classic breakfast treat.
- Homemade Sesame Bagels are perfect with Cinnamon Honey Butter Spread Recipe or Raspberry Cream Cheese Spread.
- Make Meyer Lemon French Toast or Eggless Sourdough Waffles as you can't have brunch without something to drown in maple syrup!
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Strawberry Donut Pound Cake
Equipment
- Digital Food Scale
- Stand Mixer
- Bundt Pan
Ingredients
Batter
- 226 grams salted butter (softened)
- 680 grams cane sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 7 large eggs (room temperature)
- 425 grams cake flour
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 cup milk (room temperature)
Glaze
- 284 grams powdered sugar (sifted)
- 2 to 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon strawberry powder
- natural rainbow sprinkles (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- To make the batter: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter, cane sugar and vanilla extract. Add in the eggs and mix on low until combined. Scrape down the side of the bowl and mix again until combined.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the cake flour and sea salt. Add the milk and then the flour mixture and mix on low until combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed to ensure a smooth batter and everything is mixed.
- Grease a 10-inch silicone bundt pan well with canola oil cooking spray or butter. Pour the cake batter into the bundt pan.
- Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool completely in the cake pan. Once cake is cooled, remove it from the bundt pan, carefully.
- To make the glaze: In a large mixing bowl, add the powdered sugar, milk, and strawberry powder. Whisk together until combined into a smooth glaze. Place cake on a cake stand, and drizzle the frosting over the top of the cake so it runs down both sides. Sprinkle the top of the frosting with rainbow sprinkles.
- Store in a cake dome for up to 7 days.
Notes
- Use a high quality bundt pan so it's easy to remove your cake. My favorite is the USA Pan.
- Use soft butter. I like to leave the butter out on the counter overnight and then bake with it the next day. This allows it to soften at room temperature, which is always best. If you must microwave it, don't do more than 10 seconds at a time.
- Use high quality butter, sugar, milk, and flour. This is a very simple cake with only a few ingredients – so they all really matter! I prefer to use organic ingredients all the time, but if you waffle this is a cake where it would be worth it.
- Use whole milk. Always use whole milk when making cakes as it provides fat and flavor.
- Grease the bundt pan well! Use a cooking spray, this helps tremendously over butter.
- Do not grease your pan and let it sit there, the grease will start to fall down the sides and will pool at the bottom of the pan. You always want to spray it very well right before you are ready to pour the batter in. Spray it and then immediately pour the batter in.
- Make sure to store this in a cake dome so it doesn't dry it. It will stay good for days if it's kept in a dome or in an airtight container.
- High Altitude — Bake at 350°F for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
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