This moist vanilla Ricotta Cake is so smooth, buttery, and scrumptious. The ricotta within the cake batter offers this cake a lift of moisture and richness. Take pleasure in it simply as it’s or topped with berries and cream!
Why we Love It
- Moist and smooth
- Easy to Make
- Good for any event from birthdays to holidays, showers and extra
- Nice simply as it’s, or topped with berries and cream!
Components for the Cake
This is a fast take a look at the star substances for our ricotta cake!
- Cake Flour- Makes for a softer, extra tender crumb (because it has much less protein)
- Ricotta Cheese- We use entire milk ricotta
- Unsalted Butter-We use unsalted butter and add the salt individually
- Sugar- provides sweetness and moisture
- Massive Eggs
- Baking Powder & Salt
- Vanilla Extract- Vanilla bean paste can be utilized instead of the extract
- Milk
How you can Make Ricotta Cake
You’ll find our full, printable recipe for Ricotta Cake on the backside of this put up. Here’s a fast take a look at our steps! This recipe is similar to our Lemon Ricotta Cake, however with vanilla!
- Preheat the oven to 325℉. Grease and flour a bundt cake pan or tube pan.
- Dry Components: In a separate bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to mix, put aside for later.
- In one other bowl or measuring cup, mix the ricotta cheese, milk, and vanilla extract. Put aside.
- Utilizing an electrical mixer (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer), add the softened butter to the blending bowl and blend on medium velocity till easy.
- Subsequent, progressively add the sugar and beat till mild and fluffy for 4-5 minutes.
- Add the eggs to the blending bowl separately, mixing after every till the yolk is integrated.
- With the mixer on low velocity, add the flour combination alternately with the ricotta cheese combination to the butter/sugar/egg combination within the mixing bowl. Start and finish with the dry substances. We do three additions of dry substances, alternating with two additions of moist. Combine simply till integrated.
- Scoop batter into ready bundt pan.
- Bake at 325 levels for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clear. *Baking instances could range relying on oven, dimension of bundt pan, and so forth. Peek in as the top time approaches and regulate temperature as wanted.
- Permit to chill within the pan for 10 minutes earlier than turning out.
Simple Sugar Glaze
In the present day, we embellished the ricotta cake with a easy sugar glaze. This glaze is a mixture of powdered sugar, milk, a pinch of salt, and vanilla. It’s fully optional- the cake is nice with out it, nevertheless it attire it up a bit and provides one other layer of taste. (The glaze units agency to the contact).
We topped it off with recent strawberries & blueberries!
Extra Bundt Muffins to Strive
Along with at present’s Ricotta Cake, now we have many extra pound muffins and bundt muffins for you! A few of our favorites are our Chocolate Ricotta Cake, 5 Taste Pound Cake, simple Pineapple Upside Down Bundt Cake, and Margarita Pound Cake.
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Preheat the oven to 325℉. Grease and flour a bundt cake pan or tube pan.
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In a separate bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to mix, put aside for later.
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In one other bowl or measuring cup, mix the ricotta cheese, ¼ cup milk, and vanilla extract. Put aside.
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Utilizing an electrical mixer (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer), add the softened butter to the blending bowl and blend on medium velocity till easy.
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Subsequent, progressively add the sugar and beat till mild and fluffy for 4-5 minutes.
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Add the eggs to the blending bowl separately, mixing after every till the yolk is integrated.
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With the mixer on low velocity, add the flour combination alternately with the ricotta cheese combination to the butter/sugar/egg combination within the mixing bowl. Start and finish with the dry substances. We do three additions of dry substances, alternating with two additions of moist. Combine simply till integrated.
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Scoop batter into ready bundt pan. Our 10 inch bundt pan has a baking capability of 12 cups batter (this recipe makes about 9.5 cups). In case you are working with a smaller pan, watch out to not overfill. A great rule of thumb is to not fill greater than ¾ full.
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Bake at 325 levels for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clear. *Baking instances could range relying on oven, dimension of bundt pan, and so forth. Peek in as the top time approaches and regulate temperature as wanted.
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This makes roughly 9.5 cups of batter.
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Permit to chill within the pan for 10 minutes earlier than turning out.
Glaze
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Mix confectioners sugar, milk, vanilla extract, and a pinch of salt in a small bowl and stir till easy.
Adorning the Cake
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Drizzle the glaze over the cooled pound cake. You are able to do this with a spoon, or for extra management, pipe the glaze by way of a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away (or a ziplock bag with the nook snipped away.)
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If the glaze is just too skinny, add a bit extra powdered sugar. Whether it is too thick, add a bit extra juice or a contact of milk till you attain your required consistency.
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This cake would not should be refrigerated. Retailer in an hermetic container or below a cake dome.
You’ll be able to freeze the ricotta cake (both the entire cake or by the slice) for as much as three months. Tightly wrap in plastic wrap adopted by foil. To thaw your complete cake, transfer to the fridge the day earlier than (nonetheless wrapped). Then transfer to the kitchen counter the following day, unwrap, and convey to room temperature.
