Boston Cream Bundt Cake

This homemade Boston cream bundt cake is made using cake mix, vanilla pudding and 2-ingredient chocolate ganache made in the microwave. Easy and delicious!

Where are my Boston Cream Cake lovers?

This easy, homemade Boston cream bundt cake, or as some call it, Boston Cream Pie, is going to rock your world!

★Why You'll Love this Recipe ★

So fancy, yet so easy, moist and delicious!

This heavenly pudding-filled bundt cake is topped with a 2-ingredient, 2-minute chocolate ganache you can make in the microwave. Not kidding! I told you this was easy. Yet homemade. See? This is what I do for you all.

★ Ingredients You’ll Need ★

This short-cut recipe starts with cake mix and just a few other ingredients. So easy!

Here's everything you need:

1. Yellow cake mix.
2. Oil, eggs and water (or milk) to add to the cake mix.
3. Vanilla pudding. You'll use ready-made vanilla pudding as the filling for your cake.
4. Chocolate chips and heavy cream to make the chocolate ganache glaze.
5. Whipped cream and maraschino cherries for topping.

That's it! Pretty simple!

★ How to Make this Cake

Here's a quick snapshot of the steps involved:

Check out the short video beneath the recipe below to watch how to make this cake, step by step.

★ Tips & FAQs ★

Yellow Cake Mix and Vanilla Pudding

These are your two secret weapons for saving time.

Cake Mix: There are several options for yellow cake mix as I'm sure you know, even organic cake mixes. So choose your favorite. If you're not sure just pick one to start with and then have some fun experimenting. Make this again using a different brand and get to know your personal favorite. I can't personally recommend one because I usually just buy a random one, honestly. I have noticed that each cake brand does produce a different result, with unique flavor and texture. So I should start paying more attention. ? Really though, I don't think there's a bad choice.

Vanilla Pudding: You could use an instant pudding mix. But here's a secret. There's ready-made pudding sold in the snack aisle that's even easier. No prep required. Just peel off the lid and you're good to go. Either one works though if you prefer to mix the pudding yourself. Your choice.

How to Add Pudding to the Middle of Your Bundt Cake

Friends, there is absolutely no need to cut your beautiful bundt cake in half! Before you even flip the cake out of the bundt pan, just take the end of a spatula or use your finger, and poke a circular row of holes in the center of your cake. This is where your pudding will go! Nice right?

To dispense the pudding into the holes, use a piping bag or if you don't own one, cut the corner off of a plastic sandwich bag.

Just fill the bag with pudding, cut a small piece off the corner of the bag, and gently squeeze pudding out into each poked hole in the cake.

I like to do two rounds of this to allow the pudding to settle in the hole the first time around. Then the second time, top it off so there's plenty of filling in each poked hole. Should look like this:

Note: To easily fill the piping bag, start by putting the bag inside of a tall drinking glass then fold the top of the bag over the sides of the glass. The glass holds the bag open for you so you can use two hands to scrape the filling into the bag.

Once you're done filling the holes, loosen the edges of the cake with a small spatula then flip the cake onto a cake plate.

Finishing things off with a layer of soft, smooth chocolate ganache, whipped cream and cherries.

Unbelievably Easy Homemade Chocolate Ganache

Ganache is such a fancy word. It sounds intimidating to make. But it's so easy. Even authentic chocolate ganache, without any shortcuts, is just two ingredients — chocolate and cream. Of course, I love my shortcuts, so for this recipe we microwave chocolate chips in small increments, stirring in between, and then whip in heavy cream. End result is a thick yet drippy chocolate topping that just looks so pretty and tastes amazing with the yellow cake. No double boiling or any of that jazz. It's simply not necessary.

What type of chocolate chips taste best?

This is totally a judgement call. You can use milk chocolate chips, or semi-sweet chocolate chips. The semi-sweet chips will produce a more bitter, dark chocolate flavor, whereas milk chocolate chips taste more creamy and more like chocolate chip cookies. Since chocolate ganache has no added sugar, I recommend using milk chocolate which is sweeter. Or you can go half and half and use 1 cup milk chocolate chips and 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips. Or really any ratio you want that adds up to 2 cups total.

Finally, to top this off, we have whipped cream and maraschino cherries.

You can make your own whipped cream or use store bought. I do think there is a better flavor to homemade whipped cream, but there's so little of it, it doesn't really make a difference. It's more just for decoration. The thing is though, since you're already buying heavy cream to make the chocolate ganache, you might want to save yourself from having to buy a separate container of whipped cream and just literally whip up some. To do this, just take ¼ cup heavy cream, add 1 teaspoon sugar and a pinch of salt. Whip until thick.

All you need is eight small dollops. I used a piping bag with a fancy tip to make these but you can use the plastic bag trick too.

Next, the literal cherry on top! You can skip these if you want, but they do add a fun pop of color. My tip here would be to just blot each cherry dry before placing it on top of the cake to remove extra juice. Then the cherry won't turn the whipped cream pink.

Leave the cherry stems on because they're fun! Ever tried to tie the stem of a cherry in a knot in your mouth (no hands!) Give it a try. It's supposed to make you a better kisser which makes this dessert especially romantic... think date night dessert or Valentine's Day. 😉

That's all there is to this cake!

Simple right? And personally, I think this cake tastes better than the ones you can buy at the bakery. Unless maybe you live in Boston. 🙂

Helpful Tools for Making this Boston Cream Bundt Cake:

• Bundt Pan
• Thin Rubber Spatula
• Cooling Rack
• Piping Bag
• Cake Stand
• Serving Knife

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