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Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Last Christmas, I brought the prettiest cake I’ve ever made to my cousin’s house. I posted a photo on social media to rave reviews — and lots of questions. Everyone wanted to know how I made a Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake.

And of course, I took photos as I was making it because what kind of blogger would I be if I didn’t?

Of course, I used red and green to make this for Christmas, but you could mix up the colors for this and make it for different holidays.

Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake

So, this post is about the process of how to make the cake look the way it does. It’s not actually a recipe for a cake.

In order to make this, just start with your favorite white cake recipe or, to be completely honest, you can just use a box of white cake mix.

If you do use a box of white cake mix, I suggest making it with eggs whites only, not full eggs. That way, the yolks don’t color your white cake yellow. It’ll look better.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

What You’ll Need:

What You’ll Do:

Pre-heat your oven to 350.

Make your white cake batter according to the package (or your recipe).

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Grab two bowls. Add 3/4 cups of the white cake batter to each bowl.

Set the rest of the batter aside.

Add six to eight drops of red food coloring to one bowl. Mix until combined.

Add six to eight drops of green food coloring to the other bowl. Mix until combined.

Now, this is when the real work starts.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Grease your Bundt cake pan with melted butter. The Bundt cake pan I recommend (here) is made of cast aluminum and has nine points, which is the perfect for a tri-colored cake.

With a pastry brush, “paint” a thin layer of the green cake batter on a point of the Bundt cake pan. Don’t forget to go all the way up the center.

Skip two points. Paint the next green. Skip two. Paint one green. So now, every third one is green.

Go around again and paint a thicker layer of the batter on same points. Set the green aside.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Following the same method, paint a point to the right of each green point red. So now, every third one is red. Paint a thicker layer of red over the thin layers. Set the red aside.

Finally, paint the remaining points a thin layer of white. Then, paint a thicker layer over it.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Divide the rest of the green layers between the green points. Then, divide the rest of the red layers between the red points. You don’t have to be so dainty with the cake batter.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Pour the rest of the white cake batter into the Bundt cake pan.

Don’t worry if the batter doesn’t reach the top of the Bundt cake pan. And don’t worry if some of the red, green, and white batter that you painted doesn’t get covered. When that part bakes, it will just flake away.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Bake for approximately 40 minutes until a toothpick stuck into it comes out dry.

Let it cool slightly, then remove the cake from the Bundt cake pan.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Let the Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt cake cool completely.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Melt the chocolate chips in a microwavable-safe container. Spoon the melted chips into a zip top plastic bag. Cut a pinhole-sized cut from the bag.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Drizzle the chocolate chips over the cake, going from left to right, then up and down, around and around until you’re out of chocolate (or until the cake looks done to you).

Sprinkle with the Christmas sprinkles.

Set the cake aside until the chocolate hardens.

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort. Find out how to make it at www.drugstoredivas.net.

Tips For Making This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake

Food coloring will darken as it bakes. The colors will get darker, not lighter. So if you want more dynamic colors, add more food coloring to your white cake batter as you’re stirring it. You won’t be able to change the color later.

If you have a piping bag handy, you could use that for the white chocolate instead of a makeshift piping bag using a plastic bag.

Honestly, I almost always use a plastic bag for these types of recipes because I can just toss out the bag when I’m done.

When I make meringues, something that requires more precision, I always use piping bags and tips. But for zigzags of chocolate, it’s not necessary.

Add the sprinkles while the white chocolate is still warm. If you wait until the chocolate has cooled, they may not stick.

Tri-Colored Bundt Cake Color Combinations

This post specifically talks about Christmas colors, but you could use this method to make Bundt cakes for other holidays.

Don’t forget. You could also make these in team colors for game day or school colors for graduation.

Red, White, And Blue

Memorial Day
July 4th
Veterans Day
MLB Opening Day
Baseball Tailgating Party

Pink, Blue, And White

Gender Reveal Party
Baby Shower Cake

Black, Orange, And White

Halloween

Purple, Green, And Yellow

Mardi Gras

Purple, Pink, And White

Easter
Advent Season

Black, Yellow (Gold), And White

New Year’s Eve
Milestone Birthday Cake

How is a Bundt cake different from a traditional cake?

The difference between a Bundt cake and a traditional cake is the pan it’s made it. A Bundt cake pan has decorative or grooved sides and top, plus a “chimney” (that’s the tube in the center of the pan).

You can bake traditional cake mix in a Bundt cake pan. There’s no such thing as a Bundt cake mix.

Many people do bake pound cake in a Bundt cake pan though because pound cake mix is heavier and benefits from the extra surface area the Bundt cake pan provides.

The chimney and sides are there for more than just aesthetics. They help the cake bake evenly.

When can you flip a Bundt cake?

You want the Bundt cake to cool in the pan enough to contract ever so slightly so it falls out of the pan. So, wait about ten minutes before you flip a Bundt cake.

If you flip it too early, you risk ruining the shape of the Bundt cake.

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Want more Christmas dessert recipes?

If you’re looking for other fun Christmas dessert recipes, we have some for you below:

Chocolate Christmas Fudge
Christmas Rice Krispies Treats
Santa Hat Strawberries
Christmas Chocolate Pretzels
Brownie Christmas Trees

Yield: 12 Servings

Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake

This Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt Cake is beautiful enough to impress any crowd. It's a bit of work, but worth the effort.

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients

  • White cake mix
  • Red food coloring
  • Green food coloring
  • White chocolate chips
  • Christmas sprinkles
  • Butter

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat your oven to 350 F.
  2. Make your white cake batter according to the package (or your recipe).
  3. Grab two bowls. Add 3/4 cups of the white cake batter to each bowl.
  4. Set the rest of the batter aside.
  5. Add six to eight drops of red food coloring to one bowl. Mix until combined.
  6. Add six to eight drops of green food coloring to the other bowl. Mix until combined.
  7. Grease your Bundt cake pan with melted butter. 
  8. With a pastry brush, “paint” a thin layer of the green cake batter on a point of the Bundt cake pan. Don’t forget to go all the way up the center.
  9. Skip two points. Paint the next green. Skip two. Paint one green. So now, every third one is green.
  10. Go around again and paint a thicker layer of the batter on same points. Set the green aside.
  11. Following the same method, paint a point to the right of each green point red. So now, every third one is red. Paint a thicker layer of red over the thin layers. Set the red aside.
  12. Finally, paint the remaining points a thin layer of white. Then, paint a thicker layer over it.
  13. Divide the rest of the green layers between the green points. Then, divide the rest of the red layers between the red points.
  14. Pour the rest of the white cake batter into the Bundt cake pan. 
  15. Bake for approximately 40 minutes until a toothpick stuck into it comes out dry.
  16. Let it cool slightly, then remove the cake from the Bundt cake pan.
  17. Let the Tri-Colored Christmas Bundt cake cool completely.
  18. Melt the chocolate chips in a microwavable-safe container. Spoon the melted chips into a zip top plastic bag. Cut a pinhole-sized cut from the bag.
  19. Drizzle the chocolate chips over the cake.
  20. Sprinkle with the Christmas sprinkles.
  21. Set the cake aside until the chocolate hardens.

Nutrition Information

Yield

12

Serving Size

1

Amount Per Serving Calories 51Total Fat 3gSaturated Fat 2gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 1gCholesterol 3mgSodium 31mgCarbohydrates 6gFiber 0gSugar 4gProtein 1g

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Brian Cicioni

Thursday 2nd of January 2020

New Years Resolution for the year 2020: do more baking at home! Have a great 2020!

Ewuzie Kingsley

Thursday 2nd of January 2020

Wow! This is so amazing.. and so damn appetizing too. Why wouldn't everyone want to know how you made, who doesn't like good thing, too bad that even if we want to recreate the amazing cake it will be difficult to produce something as elegant as this.

Nyxie

Wednesday 1st of January 2020

This looks amazing and so festive. I've never baked a cake, let alone a cake like this, but I would love to try it next year for Christmas day.

Natalia

Wednesday 1st of January 2020

I've never tried to prepare such a cake! It looks really festive, I'm going to bookmark this recipe for the next Christmas season! :)

Marie Phillips

Wednesday 1st of January 2020

That is so cool! It looks like it was super difficult to make, but then your instructions made it seem so easy. I love that Bundt pan pattern too. So elegant!

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