My belated Christmas gift to you.. This cake. This is a
truly perfect cake. You know gingerbread men? Imagine them soft and moist and
in cake form. Doesn’t that sound like something you need to have in your life
right now?
I may have mentioned it
before, but I love cakes. And I’ve never made a bundt cake before, but my
boyfriend managed to find me a few cool tins at the house he grew up in in
Sweden, and I was happy to take them!
This cake actually worked surprisingly well, the hardest
part of a bundt cake is extricating the delicious (and soft, and fragile) cake from the tin. It took me a
few scary moments with a plastic knife to get it out, but a well-greased pan in
preparation really does do wonders.
I had intended to make just a cake, but I ended up with a
LOT of mixture and a rather small tin, so I got about a dozen cupcakes out of
it too. I baked them until golden, which took about 20-25 minutes. And for
icing those, I just whipped up a simple buttercream icing, added a load of cinnamon
to it, then piped and embellished in a festive theme. YUM.
