Golden Cornmeal Bundt Cake dusted with confectioners’ sugar, with one slice served beside lemon curd on a vintage patterned plate.

Golden Cornmeal Bundt Cake

Fine yellow cornmeal lends a little warmth and texture to this buttery, tender Bundt cake. Its simple vanilla crumb is lovely plain with coffee or topped with berries and whipped cream.

This Golden Cornmeal Bundt Cake is buttery, tender, and lightly golden with just enough cornmeal to give the crumb a little warmth and texture! Beautiful served plain or dressed up with berries and whipped cream, it’s the kind of simple old-fashioned cake that feels just as right beside afternoon coffee as it does on a holiday dessert table.

Betty Lou Gardner in a family archival photograph

Granny’s Kitchen Notes

From Betty Lou Gardner

I always grease the Bundt pan more than seems necessary because those pretty little grooves have a habit of holding onto cake if you rush things. The cornmeal gives this cake a warmth regular butter cakes don’t quite have, especially with coffee in the afternoon.

How to Make Golden Cornmeal Bundt Cake

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Hands coating a fluted Bundt pan with butter and cake flour on a vintage yellow kitchen counter.
01

Prepare the Bundt Pan

Butter and flour every ridge and the center tube so the cake releases cleanly later.

Cake flour, fine-ground yellow cornmeal, baking powder, and fine salt being whisked in a yellow mixing bowl.
02

Mix the Dry Ingredients

Whisk together cake flour, fine-ground yellow cornmeal, baking powder, and salt.

Unsalted butter and granulated sugar being creamed until pale and fluffy with a hand mixer in a vintage yellow bowl.
03

Cream the Butter and Sugar

Beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time and mix in the vanilla.

Dry ingredients being added to creamed cake batter beside a measured cup of whole milk.
04

Alternate Flour and Milk

Add the dry mixture and milk in stages, beginning and ending with the dry mixture.

Golden Cornmeal Bundt Cake baking in a fluted pan on the center rack of a warm oven.
05

Bake Until Golden

Fill the prepared pan, tap out large air pockets, and bake until deeply golden and set through the center.

Golden Cornmeal Bundt Cake dusted with confectioners’ sugar, with one slice served beside lemon curd on a vintage patterned plate.

Golden Cornmeal Bundt Cake

Fine yellow cornmeal lends a little warmth and texture to this buttery, tender Bundt cake. Its simple vanilla crumb is lovely plain with coffee or topped with berries and whipped cream.

By Betty Lou Gardner

Prep15 minCook1 hr 20 minTotal2 hr 45 minDifficultyEasy
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Ingredients

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Dry Ingredients

Wet Ingredients

Pan Preparation

Instructions

  1. additional softened unsalted butter and cake flour, as needed
  2. 2¼ cups cake flour, ¾ cup fine-ground yellow cornmeal, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon fine salt
  3. 3 sticks unsalted butter, 2 cups granulated sugar, 6 large eggs, 2¼ teaspoons vanilla extract
  4. dry mixture, ¾ cup whole milk

Nutrition (Approximate Per Serving)

Yield

12 slices — Serving size: 1 slice

Some ingredients could not be modeled and may meaningfully change the totals. Treat these values as a rough estimate.

Calories
490
Carbohydrates
58.5 g
Protein
6.5 g
Fat
26 g
Saturated Fat
15.5 g
Cholesterol
160 mg
Sodium
310 mg
Fiber
0.7 g
Total Sugars
34 g

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