mini lemon-rhubarb bundt cakes
Leave it to me to bring to a pink-themed baby shower, um, something not really pink at all.
I blame pregnancy brain. And the fact that I was so excited about little bebe bundt cakes, I completely forgot to dye the glaze pink as planned. Le sigh.
But I’m even more excited for Georgia of The Comfort of Cooking’s little bebe girl, whom we are celebrating today with this fun virtual baby shower! Surprise, friend! Let’s commiserate about pregnancy brain together while we enjoy these mini lemon-rhubarb bundt cakes!
It’s been so fun to share this journey of pregnancy right alongside Georgia, especially considering our due dates are so close. And finding out we are both having baby girls made it even more fun. I have visions of all four of us hanging out one day, eating yummy food (because our girls are going to love food as much as we do, I just know it) and talking about that one time Steph forgot to dye the glaze pink on those mini bundt cakes for Georgia’s pink-themed baby shower (JOKES. I’m totally over it, psshh).
About these cakes; oh, these cakes. They’re tart and sweet and tender and moist — I said it — and perfect for springtime celebrations. The cake itself is flavored with lemon zest and rhubarb (yay, some pink!) and the glaze is lemony, too. And baking them in a mini bundt cake pan just ups the cuteness factor by eleventy billion — totally necessary for a baby shower, methinks.
If you don’t have a mini bundt cake pan (which, hello, who doesn’t have one, amiright? Just keeeeedding), you should either a) get yourself this one because they’re fun to bake with or b) follow the ingredient amounts from the original recipe on Patty’s Food, which can be baked in a regular Bundt pan. My measurements will only work for mini bundt cake molds, or half a regular Bundt cake — and no one wants one of those.
Happy baby shower day, Georgia! I cannot wait to meet your little baby girl.
Psst — check out what everyone else brought to the party below! And if you haven’t been to Georgia’s blog yet, go to there — and bring your bib, because there will be much drooling involved over her yummy recipes and beautiful photos.
Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse from Texanerin Baking
Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes from Grandbaby Cakes
Strawberry Almond Cream Tart from Jeanette’s Healthy Living
Lightened Up No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Parfaits from Steph’s Bite by Bite
Strawberry Swirl Sour Cream Bars from Crunchy Creamy Sweet
Lemon Raspberry Poppy Seed Cookie Cups from Cookie Monster Cooking
Rhubarb Cream Cheese Hand Pies from Eats Well With Others
Kale Salad with Strawberries, Goat cheese, and Strawberry Vinaigrette from The Roasted Root
Roasted Asparagus and Goat Cheese Frittata from The Lemon Bowl
Roasted Strawberry Greek Yogurt Cheesecake from Baker by Nature
Strawberry Lemonade Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars from A Kitchen Addiction
Strawberry Lemonade Bars from Confessions of a Confectionista
White Velvet Layer Cake with Strawberry-Raspberry Mascarpone Buttercream from Wicked Good Kitchen
Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Glaze from The Messy Baker
Mini Lemon-Rhubarb Bundt Cakes
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 35 mins
- Yield: 4 mini bundt cakes 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
For the cakes:
- 1 1/4 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, divided
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- Zest of 1/2 lemon
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
- A scant 1/2 cup (3 ounces) buttermilk
- 1 1/2 cups (8 ounces) chopped fresh rhubarb
For the glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar, plus more as needed
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 3/4 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
- Red food coloring (optional)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Generously spray the bottom and sides of 4 1-cup mini bundt cake molds.
- In a large bowl, whisk together 1 1/4 cups flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a separate large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter, sugar and lemon zest 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Add eggs and lemon extract; stir to combine.
- Alternately stir flour mixture and buttermilk into the butter mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture and stirring well after each addition.
- Toss chopped rhubarb with remaining 1 tablespoon flour. Stir half of the rhubarb into the batter.
- Divide batter evenly among prepared mini bundt cake molds. Top evenly with remaining rhubarb.
- Bake cakes 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown on the edges and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes in pan, then carefully invert cakes from pan onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
- When cakes are fully cooled, combine glaze ingredients (add red food coloring if you want to dye the glaze pink), adding more powdered sugar as needed until glaze is smooth but thick. Pour glaze over cooled cakes.
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Cute! Cute! Cute! And definitely very delicious 🙂
Aww! I love that you and Georgia have been able to share the journey together. And so fun that you’re both having girls!
And hey… there’s rhubarb in here! That’s totally pink. Who needs food coloring? 😉 These are perfect as is!
Thanks so much for participating! I hope Georgia will love all the goodies we made for her. 🙂
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Wow such a spread of lovely food. You are very lucky to be surrounded by such friendly bloggers.
Yum.. Rhubarb is such a treat for me.
So sweet! These mini cakes are so lovely.. this would be great for Mothers Day too..
Awww love these!! It’s very nice that you and Georgia got to share this journey. Rhubarb is on my list of things to get soon. The cakes look so good!
Yay for more babies!! Too bad we all don’t live in the same city because then we could have a big mommy-baby-blogger group LOL! And that would mean we would all be eating these little minis! YUM
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Ahh!! Happy baby show to Georgia!! Very fun and the cakes (pink or not) sound and look amazing!
Yayy . we’re rhubarb besties 😉
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I may have to get myself a mini bundt cake pan immediately!!
These are so cute! Just like both your lil babes are going to be!!! And who needs pink frosting!?!?
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I need rhubarb in my bundt stat! These little guys are adorable, and I neeeds me a mini bundt pan! I’ve been anxious to read your post since I figured you and Georgia were able to bounce baby/prego ideas off each other. Such a wonderful bond!! Prego bloggers unite! Anyhoo, I’m happy to hang with you at Georgia’s shower. Now let’s go measure our bellies and eat some bundt!
How fun that you ladies are so close together in due dates and having baby girls! I can’t wait for your little girl to get here! Will be keeping an eye out – any day now! These are beautiful little bundt cakes for the shower – love the rhubarb for the pink! 🙂
I don’t even know how you’re doing this when you’re nearly ready to go with your baby! You are a magical unicorn.
Yayyy!! These are SO adorable and I still spy rhubarb in these little guys which is PINK, so you’re in the clear. 🙂 Congrats to Georgia!!!
Sarah — That comment is my favorite. As are you.
Love these little cakes Steph! Perfect for a baby shower!
I love the sweet pops of pink in this cake! These are gorgeous!
Congrats on your impending bundle of joy too! Glad I stumbled by to see these beautiful baby bundts! Love the lemon rhubarb combination!!
Those cakes are just so adorable and so perfect! I want one right this second!
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So sweet of you all to do this for Georgia! Can’t wait to “meet” all your little ones. And I would love to get my hands on one of these mini bundt cakes!
The glaze doesn’t need to be pink for me to want to reach in there and grab several adorable little cakes!!!! They look amazing! And the perfect size for a baby shower. Too cute!
These are so beautiful, Stephanie! So excited for both of you wonderful girls!! Any day now for you!!!!!
These are the most adorable little cakes, so perfect for a baby shower!
These are darling! I’d like a box full! So, pretty!
That is quite possibly the world perfect baby shower dessert. So cute, dainty and beautiful! I need to get some of those pans.. Love!
Steph, these little bundts are amazing! You are amazing! And I am SO overwhelmed with love today from my beautiful blogger friends. This was such a sweet surprise to wake up to. It means so much to me that you were a part of it, my darling preggo buddy! ? I, too, imagine our baby girls noshing on sweets together one day… if we don’t get to them first! 😉
haha is it bad that I definitely forget to do things like tint the glaze pink and I have no pregnancy brain to blame it on??? If I don’t write something down on one of the million post-it notes I have stuck all over my house it doesn’t happen. These are so cute!
I think we’re willing to forgive the lack of pink glaze because these baby bundt cakes look and sound amazing!
Cute little guys! I need to invest in a mini bundt pan, and then I need to eat that glaze straight from the mixing bowl immediately.
Georgia — You are so welcome, friend! I’m glad you were surprised. 🙂 I can’t wait to “meet” your baby girl!
I totally see pink in there 😉 These look super yummy, and part of an awesome virtual shower, how adorable!
These are seriously perfect!!! And at least yours has a pink ingredient. I brought a savory frittata – lol!! #bloggerfail
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How fun are these mini bundt cakes!! Pink glaze or not – these must happen! So fun to celebrate Georgia’s baby girl with you, sweet friend!
I was JUST thinking last night about how rhubarb kind of gets type-cast as “That Thing We All Pair With Strawberries” and how there must be other fruits that pair well with it (not that anything is wrong with strawberry rhubarb – it’s a classic for a reason! but fresh rhubarb has appeared in stores here, but the strawberries I’ve seen aren’t really anything special yet.)…and then today I saw this! Sounds perfect!!
These little bundt cakes are adorable and elegant, looks like you used a mini bundt pan.
Love, love, love these! So darn cute, even sans le pink icing!
I love mini desserts, and these little bundt cakes are adorable (even if they don’t have pink frosting!) I can imagine how delicious they taste, too!
Aww these are too cute, and are for such a fun cause!! Love it!
these are gorgeous! they’re perfect for a baby shower. and for any spring gathering!
Such beautiful little morsels. Not sure I could stop at just one, but (they’re definitely perfect) to share around. Congrats again!!!
I totally second Sarah…you are a ROCKSTAR for getting these all baked up while simultaneously baking up that bebe of yours to perfection. Multi-tasking. I like it.
Well, these are adorable, and I love that we both hopped on the rhubarb bandwagon. It’s a tasty place to be.
it looks lovely!
These are SO mega adorable! Just like you! And Georgia! Just yes to it all 🙂 xo
Ahhhhh what a cute mini bundt cake!!!!!!!! The pink color is barely being missed ’cause that white works wonders too!!!!! Can I just pick 1 {or 6} and eat {or wolf them down}!!!! *-*
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rhubarb…rhubarb…rhubarb… I can’t get enough of it… and with great recipes like this… I’m in love
The glaze on these cakes looks perfect, pink or not pink! The rhubarb does add that beautiful color, so you’ve still got one festive mini cake, perfect for a baby shower. Congrats to Georgia, who’s blog I love, and congrats to you as well!
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These look fantastic, Steph! So fluffy and tender crumbed. Love the idea of mixing lemon and rhubarb; a great combination!
It’s the thought that counts! And Georgia is so sweet she won’t care that they’re not pink.
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Could I just bake all the batter in one large bundt cake pan? Because I don’t have a small one.
Moist and delicious with the right amount of sweet and tart! I made them for my dad for a little Father’s Day gift. Perfect!
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