Apple-Cider Bundt Cake

Apple-Cider Bundt Cake

Jesse Bluma at Pointe Viven. All rights reserved.

If you love apples, warm autumn flavors, and cakes that pair well with coffee or ice cream, you will love this cake!  This Bundt cake feels like a wholesome way to top off Sunday brunch at home with friends or dinner with family.  The blend of ingredients, including apple sauce and olive oil, gives the cake great texture and flavor.  

Handmade cakes are special.  As cookbook author Marion Cunningham noted, “In many ways, home cooking is even more creative than what chefs do, because we improvise. We also have the fun of cooking together with our children or with friends. And there is a satisfaction of giving pleasure and comfort to others with something we have cooked ourselves."

Marion Cunningham was responsible for revising The Fannie Farmer Cookbook and she wrote her own cookbooks, such as Learning to Cook.  Despite an extremely challenging childhood, Cunningham graduated school, got married, became a housewife and mother, and later in life became an accomplished cook, earning a position with famed cookbook author James Beard.  

Holidays, such as Thanksgiving, or any day for that matter is time for gratitude.  Making family and friends happy with your cooking or the gift of baked goods, cakes, cookies, and more creates good times and memories.  Surrounding ourselves with people that like to laugh, are genuine, and enjoy food too is always a good thing.  Certainly, apple-cider Bundt cake is a genuine gift of cookery.

This apple-cider cake is made with quality ingredients and time-tested methods.  If you are making your own cakes or purchasing cakes for loved ones, the ingredients matter.  The process of cake making is also important to ensure cakes are made well and taste delectable.  The batter must be stirred thoroughly without over-mixing.  The batter for this great cake requires a blend of carefully sifted flours, freshly ground cinnamon, maple syrup, apple sauce, and apple-cider.  A splash of bourbon is optional, yet so good.   The top of the cake is then successfully crowned with powdered sugar after baking and cooling. 

As Marion Cunningham declared, the art and science of cookery is a creative endeavor.  Baking cakes or other goods for family and friends is also fun and an excellent way to demonstrate gratitude.  

Thank you to all those that have been loyal supporters and fans.  My business originated when I started selling homemade chocolates around age 10.  Jesse Bluma at Point Viven liberates taste in cookery, culture, and community, provides gourmet goods made with organic ingredients, inspired by the culinary worlds of California, Central, and South America, and engages in a community of customers and readers with lifestyle content, reviews, and expertise.

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Credit:  http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/remembering-marion-cunningham/?_r=0