Do You Need Cinnamon Roll Bundt Cake?

There are times in our life that we just need to share comfort. In times of loss, our southern roots reach for a recipe to take to the family. You know that I have shared a recipe like this before here. Today I’m sharing a wonderfully moist and delicious cake with a cinnamon roll filling. Perfect for brunch or taking to others when comfort is needed.

Recently, a friend’s dad passed away. As I was scrolling through our text messages, I realized that he had shared a recipe with me last summer. Knowing that he would love this cake, that’s where the need to create this recipe and share it with him and then you began.

Cinnamon Roll Bundt Cake

In his description, a cross between a wonderfully moist cake and a cinnamon roll.

Have I piqued your interest yet?

I always love having simple and easy recipes to share with others…if only for a potluck. This one will be added to the others, like the butter pecan cake or the blueberry coffee cake for occasions when there are feet under my table or at others’ tables.

This recipe, like many favorite cake recipes like the coconut cake and butter pecan cake, begins with a simple cake mix. I know. I have friends right now who will scream at me about that mix…but, in reality, will gladly enjoy the end product of using them. I truly have to laugh when that happens.

With a bundt pan and a few simple ingredients, this one is a keeper. I haven’t added one to the freezer yet, but it may happen with this cake sliced and stored in food saver bags when my husband or unexpected guests need something with their tea or coffee.

Cinnamon Roll Cake

A delicious and moist butter cake that has a cinnamon roll filling that makes it perfect for brunch or dessert.

5 from 1 vote

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 50 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 5 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 12 slices

Equipment

• 1 10" bundt pan
• 1 mixer
• 1 set measuring spoons and dry measuring cups
• 1 liquid measuring cup
• 1 oven
• 1 cutting board
• 1 chef knife

Ingredients

  

• 1 15.25 oz box Butter yellow cake mix use 2 T cake mix for topping mixture
• 1 C pecans, chopped
• 2 t cinnamon
• 1/8 C brown sugar
• 1/4 C sugar
• 1 C sour cream
• 4 large eggs
• 1/3 C vegetable oil
• 1/4 C water

Glaze

• 1 C powdered sugar
• 2 T milk

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 375°.
• Butter or grease bundt cake pan.
• Measure all ingredients.
  
• Mix together 2 T cake mix, chopped pecans, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a bowl and set aside.
  
• In a large mixer bowl, add rest of cake mix, sugar, oil, water, eggs and sour cream and beat on high for two minutes.
  
• Add half of the cake batter to the bottom of the bundt pan.
  
• Cover the cake batter evenly with the brown sugar mixture filling.
  
• Add the remaining cake mixture over the top of the filling.
• Place the bundt cake into the center of the preheated oven and bake for 45-50 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean from the center of the cake.
• Remove from the oven and leave it in the pan for about 30 minutes before removing from the pan.
• Turn out cake onto a cake plate and completely cool before frosting.

Glaze

• Mix together the powdered sugar and milk until smooth and drizzle over cooled cake.

  Feel free to add less milk or more powdered sugar to make a thicker consistency.
  

Notes

A delicious bundt cake recipe that is a mixture of a cinnamon roll and moist butter cake. Perfect for a brunch, potluck or share with others when comfort is needed.

TIP: Feel free to leave out nuts if there are those with nut issues.

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So glad to have found this recipe.

2024 has been a brutal beginning with the loss of 8 friends and friends’ family members. Two of these cakes left my home to others’ homes this week for a bit of comfort.

Hope you’ll give this one a try and let me know if you love it.

Just a tip…I love to get Dollar Tree’s cake carriers to use for cake deliveries. I keep a stash so that they are always ready when I need to take a cake to a funeral or home of someone who is ill or lost a loved one.

Even birthday cake deliveries are easier with these. We often add names on the lid with our Cricut for birthday cakes.

Enjoy, my friends.

Thank you for following along. It’s always a joy to share favorite recipes with you. I hope this recipe is shared with happier moments with those gathered with you rather than a time of loss.

I’d love to know in the comments if this is a new favorite!

Have a great week, friends,