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Well, do you recognize our Christmas cake with punch? The Christmas bundt cake is decorated as a red-nosed reindeer today!
Reindeer cake in November? oh yes, my dear sweet tooth, after Halloween the Christmas season begins for us 😉 We are starting our Christmas baking this year with the juicy Christmas cake with punch! A easy recipe for the upcoming Christmas parties with kids. For making children's hearts beat faster, the Gugelhupf is decorated as a funny reindeer.
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Rezept für unseren Weihnachtskuchen mit Punsch
The Christmas cake tastes subtly of Christmas spices thanks to the non-alcoholic punch. We used a red punch, if your kids and you prefer an apple-based punch, this will also taste delicious in your Christmas cake.
Of course, the Bundt cake tastes just as good without the reindeer decoration - but it definitely looks funnier than reindeer cake!
Ingredients
Sponge dough
- 300 g flour
- 250 g butter
- 220 g sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 packet of baking powder (15 g)
- 125 ml red punch
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons baking cocoa
- 150 g chocolate shavings
glaze
- 200 g dark chocolate couverture (I have used Duo glaze cinnamon-cocoa from Dr. Oetker* )
Decoration
- 25 g white fondant*
- 2 toothpicks
- black sugar paint*
- red chocolate ball* (alternatively red Primavera strawberries from Haribo* or red m&ms* work as well)
- 2 reindeer antler cake toppers (I'll show you the instructions and the download at the end of the post)
Baking Accesories
Kitchen scales, measuring cup, mixing bowl, hand mixer, dough scraper, cooling rack, bundt pan (we used „Reggio“ by Silikomart* ), saucepan & melting bowl or microwave to melt the glaze, a pastry brush if necessary.
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Preparation
- Preheat the oven to 175°C top/bottom heat.
- Mix the butter with a hand mixer until fluffy.
- Add sugar and stir until dissolved.
- Add eggs one at a time and stir for 30 seconds each.
- Mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and cocoa, add to the dough and mix to form a smooth dough.
- In the next step, stir in the punch and then mix in the chocolate shavings.
- Pour the dough into the bundt pan and bake for 45-50 minutes. Please do the chopstick test for the cooking test.
- After baking, remove the punch cake from the tin and let it cool on the cake rack.
- While the Bundt cake is cooling, use the white fondant to shape the ears and eyes
- Now melt the icing in a water bath and then spread it on the punch cake. Also dip the ears briefly into the icing (but be careful, fondant is made of sugar and this will melt in the icing that is too hot - you can also carefully brush the ears with a pastry brush.
- Auf die leicht angetrocknete Glasur befestigst du nun die Augen und rote Nase und steckst die Ohren in den Gugelhupf.
- Once the glaze has dried, you can paint the little mouth.
Preparation in pictures
Reindeer cake topper
Of course, a real reindeer cake only really looks like a reindeer when it is adorned with pretty antlers...
You can easily make the cake topper for the reindeer cake using brown photo cardboard, shish kebab skewers and, if necessary, small bells. You can find a print template that makes crafting easier here.
My kids and I wish you and your kids a lot of fun baking and crafting and even more fun snacking on cakes with your loved ones!
Yours, Lia
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