Easy White Chocolate Cherry Bundt Cake Recipe with Greek Yogurt

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This easy white chocolate cherry bundt cake recipe features a blend of vanilla, almond, and white chocolate flavors with an added pop from fresh cherries and extra moisture from Greek Yogurt. A delicious and easy summer dessert perfect for potlucks! 

This White Chocolate Cherry Bundt Cake is one of those easy summer desserts that I can’t get enough of.

By no means is it light in the sense that it’s particularly healthy but the flavor of it is just light and subtle! It works great as a simple portable potluck dessert during the summer months, but it’s also excellent during the holiday season when many desserts tend to be overly sweet and indulgent.  You can use frozen cherries so yes, this can be made all year round.

The red cherries also give it a cheerful and festive look, so why not add some almond essence to the batter and serve it for Christmas. Oh, I am glad you asked – yes, you CAN add brandy cherries instead of fresh cherries.

You can serve this white chocolate cherry bundt cake with just a dusting of icing sugar and it will be just perfect! I do not think it needs a sweet glaze but if you have a serious sweet tooth, you can glaze it with melted white chocolate. A cream cheese glaze would be awesome as well. 

The secret to the moist cake batter? Vanilla Greek Yogurt.

Adding greek yogurt or sour cream into a cake recipe produces a wonderfully moist bundt cake. The addition of ground almonds makes it even richer and more tender! 

Each bite of cake is filled with the sweet melted white chocolate, and vanilla with a burst of tangy sweetness from the sour cherries. This cake was definitely a winner in my book! 

 Tips for baking with fresh cherries

For this white chocolate cherry bundt cake recipe, I am using sour cherries as we have them in our garden and they add such a nice contrast to the sweet chocolate batter. You can use sweet cherries, frozen or canned. Brandy cherries? YES YES YES! 

I cut the cherries in quarters to make sure they were a little lighter and would not sink entirely to the bottom. The traditional trick of dusting them with some of the flour from the cake is definitely worth the 3 seconds spent.

Can I bake this bundt cake in a loaf pan? 

The cake baked up well in my favorite bundt pan but you can make it in two regular size loaf pans. That would work just as well. However, different sized pans will result in different baking times. Just watch it and let the toothpick test be your guide. Start checking after 30 minutes to see when your cake is perfectly baked.

Tips:

• Just be sure to take your time in adding and mixing all ingredients. For the proper bundt cake consistency, you don’t want to rush! And be sure you’re making this in a bundt cake pan as opposed to a regular cake pan.
• Preparing the bundt pan for the batter is one of the most critical steps. Otherwise, you will end up with a disaster when you are trying to remove the cake from the pan. After greasing the bundt pan, sprinkle with a little bit of flour to prevent sticking.
• The best way to get the cake out of the bunt pan is to place it on a wire rack when you take it out of the oven. Allow it to cool on it between 15-20 minutes. It should be cool enough to come out in one beautiful piece.
• After the chocolate cherry bundt cake has cooled,  you can flip it over and lightly tap the outside of the pan. Then slowly remove the pan while leaving the cake on the wire rack. If you greased the bundt pan properly, the cake should slide right out with minimal problems.

More delicious cherry recipes: 

• Brandy Cherry Ice Cream
• Best Cherry Chutney 
• Cherry Strudel 
• Lamb Kofte with Cherries 
• Cherry Cake with Sesame & Lime 
• German Marble Cake with Cherries

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Cherry Almond Bundt Cake

This easy white chocolate cherry bundt cake recipe features a blend of vanilla, almond, and white chocolate flavors with an added pop from fresh cherries and extra moisture from Greek Yogurt. A delicious and easy summer dessert perfect for potlucks! 

Course Dessert

Cuisine America

Keyword cherry almond bundt cake, chocolate cherry cake, white chocolate bundt cake

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Servings 12

Calories 300 kcal

Ingredients

• 200 g  fresh or frozen cherries
• 200 g butter at room temperature
• 150 g sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 2 eggs at room temperature
• 1 tbsp kirsch schnapps optional
• 200 g Vanilla Greek yogurt full-fat or sour cream
• 200 g flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 100 g almond flour
• 100 g white chocolate grated
• almond essence - optional

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 160 C/ 320 F.
2. Halve and destone the cherries. Chop them up a bit without mashing them. Dust them with flour or cornstarch.

3. Cream softened butter and sugar with a hand mixer or in your standmixer for 5 minutes, until fluffy and white before adding vanilla and the eggs one after the other. Add almond essence if using. Sieve flour, baking powder, and salt together and stir in the almond flour. Add dry mix to butter mix while mixing with the paddle attachment and mix only until just combined, then stir in yogurt and kirsch schnaps if using. Mehl. Fold in grated or chopped chocolate

4. Place half of the batter into well-greased bundt pan. It is essential to spoon it in, so the air doesn’t get trapped. Also, gently tap the bottom of the bundt pan on the countertop. This will allow any excess air to escape. Top with half of the cherries.
5. Pour the rest of the batter into the bundt cake, top with more cherries and bake for about  50 Minuten. When you check the homemade bundt cake for doneness, you should notice that sides of the cake have begun pulling away. I recommend sticking a long toothpick in the center and see if it comes out clean or not. If there is still some wet batter when you take out the toothpick, it will need some additional baking time.
6. Allow it to sit between 15-20 minutes. This will cool it down enough that it should come out in one beautiful piece. Dust with icing sugar

Recipe Notes

• Just be sure to take your time in adding and mixing all ingredients. For the proper bundt cake consistency, you don’t want to rush! And be sure you’re making this in a bundt cake pan as opposed to a regular cake pan.
• Preparing the bundt pan for the batter is one of the most critical steps. Otherwise, you will end up with a disaster when you are trying to remove the cake from the pan. After greasing the bundt pan, sprinkle with a little bit of flour to prevent sticking.

• the best way to get the cake out of the bunt pan is to place it on a wire rack when you take it out of the oven. Allow it to cool on it between 15-20 minutes. It should be cool enough to come out in one beautiful piece.

• After the chocolate cherry bundt cake has cooled,  you can flip it over and lightly tap the outside of the pan. Then slowly remove the pan while leaving the cake on the wire rack. If you greased the bundt pan properly, the cake should slide right out with minimal problems.