Lemon Bundt with Lemon Curd Filling for #BundtaMonth

Welcome to BundtAMonth January where the theme is Citrus! This lemon cake will brighten up a cold winter’s afternoon as it is perfect with a cup of tea. The original recipe is a sour cream-lemon pound cake from Cooking Light. I added a touch of lemon curd into the batter then also layered the lemon curd into the cake. I wish it was more apparent that the lemon filling was in the cake but the colors of the cake and the filling are so similar that you don’t notice until you take a bite.  And that glaze, yes more lemon! A lemon and powdered sugar topping seals the deal here.  All this talk about lemon and you might think this cake is overwhelmingly strong. It is not. I find that you have to load up on lemon flavors for the lemon to sing in the cake once baked and this combination is quite pleasing.
Ingredients:
Adapted from the Cooking Light recipe
3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 large eggs
2 Tablespoons lemon zest
1/4 cup lemon curd (store bought or homemade) for the batter and 1/4 cup lemon curd for the filling
1/4 cup lemon juice plus 1 TB lemon juice for glaze
8 ounces sour cream
1/2 cup powdered sugar

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Spray Bundt pan with baking spray and dust with flour.

Combine the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir with a fork or whisk.

Using a mixer (hand held or stand mixer) beat the butter for 2-3 minutes, until it lightens in color and texture. Slowly add the sugar, then the eggs, Next add the lemon zest, lemon curd and lemon juice. Blend well.

Add the flour mixture and the sour cream in stages, alternating and mixing at low speed as you go. My hand-held mixer was not strong enough to mix on low towards the end of mixing this batter so I switched to a wooden spoon.

The batter will be thick. Put half of the batter into the pan and spread it around with a spatula. You can spoon the lemon curd filling around the batter but I like putting it in a ziploc bag, cutting the corner off and piping the filling around in the center of the batter. Avoid the edges so that the curd stays within the cake.

Bake for 1 hour, add an extra ten minutes if necessary.

Cool for ten minutes in the pan then invert the pan and remove the cake. Once the cake is cooled,whisk together the glaze of 1 Tb lemon juice and 1/2 cup powdered sugar and pour over the cake.

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