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Sliced Limoncello Bundt Cake on a cake pedestal.
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5 from 16 votes

Easy Limoncello Bundt Cake

This easy Limoncello Bundt Cake starts with a cake mix! It is ultra moist with a lightly and lemony flavor, and a simple limoncello glaze.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time50 minutes
Additional Time20 minutes
Total Time1 hour 25 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 15 servings

Ingredients

For the Cake

  • 1 Box White Cake Mix We used Duncan Hines Classic White Perfectly Moist
  • 1 Small Package 3.4 oz/96g Instant Lemon Pudding
  • ½ cup All Purpose Flour (60g)
  • ½ cup White Sugar (100g)
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ cup Vegetable Oil (we use Canola oil) (108g)
  • ½ cup Limoncello (121g)
  • 1 cup Sour Cream (227g)
  • ½ cup Milk (We use whole or 2% fat)
  • Juice and Zest from one Lemon (Approx. ¼ cup lemon juice)
  • 1 Tablespoon Lemon Extract

For the Glaze

  • 1 cup White Sugar (200g)
  • 1 stick Unsalted butter (113g)
  • 3 Tablespoons Water (44g)
  • cup Limoncello (75g)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
  • Grease and flour a 10 or 12 cup bundt pan.
  • Zest and Squeeze the juice from one lemon. (We used ¼ cup juice- if you have less, make up the difference with a bit of water). Set aside.
  • Sift the cake mix into your mixing bowl. Add the flour, lemon pudding mix, and sugar and combine.
  • Add all of the other ingredients to the bowl: zest and juice of one lemon, vegetable oil, sour cream, our eggs, Limoncello, lemon extract, and milk.
  • Mix at low speed for about ten seconds to incorporate before increasing to medium speed for two minutes.
  • Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a skewer or toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached.
  • During the last 15 minutes of baking, make the glaze.

Glaze Instructions

  • In a saucepan, stir the glaze ingredients (sugar, butter, water, limoncello) over low heat until butter has melted. Raise the heat to medium heat, stirring constantly until it begins to boil. (Be careful-It may boil over if you are not stirring.) Boil for 3 minutes and remove from heat.
  • This glaze will be poured over the cake just after the baked cake is pulled from the oven and still in the pan. Pour the warm glaze over the cake (still in pan) and let it sit for 15 minutes to absorb.
  • After 15 minutes has passed, when the glaze has been absorbed, place your cake plate/pedestal upside down against the cake pan and then flip it all as one so that the cake plate is now right side up with the inverted pan on top. Remove the can pan to reveal the cake.

Notes

The recommended bundt pan size is a 10 or 12 cup pan.
If you are using a smaller pan than this, the general rule of thumb is not to fill your pan more than ⅔ full or you will run the risk of it overflowing as it bakes.