Easy Lemon Bundt Cake
Easy Lemon Bundt Cake starts with a cake mix and is bursting with lemon flavor. The warm cake is soaked with a lemon butter sauce!
Prep
: 10
Total
: 25 minutes
Ingredients
Cake Ingredients
- 15 ounce lemon cake mix
- 0.5 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1 cup milk
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon butter extract optional
- 3.4 ounce instant vanilla pudding mix
Lemon Butter Sauce
- 0.25 cup granulated sugar
- 0.75 cup unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 zest of one lemon
- 0.001 pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Preparation Steps
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 12-cup bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Beat the cake mix, melted butter, eggs, milk, butter extract, and pudding mix until a thick batter forms. Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake for 35-45 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with just a few crumbs. Remove from oven and cool in pan for 10 minutes.
- While the cake bakes, melt butter in a saucepan. Stir in sugar, lemon juice, zest, and salt; cook until it simmers. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Poke holes in the warm cake and pour the lemon butter sauce over it. Cool completely before removing from pan and dusting with powdered sugar.
Notes
This cake is best served warm and dusted generously with powdered sugar.