Pink Grapefruit Cake

(from Ryan77’s recipe box)

Source: Joanne Fluke

Categories: Cake

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup salted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 2 cups white (granulated) sugar
  • 8 ounces light cream cheese - softened to room temperature
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup whole milk
  • 1 Tablespoon grated pink grapefruit zest (just use the colored part)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour

Directions

  1. Prepare a Bundt cake pan by spraying it with Pam, or another nonstick cooking spray, and then coating the insides with flour. To do this, sprinkle some flour in the bottom of the Bundt pan, stand over your kitchen wastebasket, and turn the cake pan so that the flour touches the sides and coats them. Don’t forget to coat the outside of the crater in the middle of the pan. When you’re through preparing your pan, hold it upside down over the wastebasket and shake out the excess flour.

  2. Place the softened butter in the bowl of an electric mixer.

  3. Add the white sugar and the softened cream cheese. Beat everything together until the mixture is light and fluffy.

  4. Mix in the eggs. Beat until they are thoroughly incorporated.

  5. Drizzle in the vegetable oil and continue to beat until the oil has been incorporated.

  6. Add the milk and the pink grapefruit zest. Mix them in thoroughly.

  7. Mix in the vanilla extract, the baking powder, and the salt. Mix well.

  8. Add the flour in half-cup increments, beating after each addition. The object is to create a smooth, well-mixed cake batter.

  9. Pour the cake batter into the prepared Bundt pan.

  10. Bake at 325°F for 45 minutes or until the top surface of the cake does not indent when touched with a finger. Be very careful not to overbake the cake.

  11. Let your Pink Grapefruit Cake cool for 15 minutes before taking it out of the pan.

  12. To do this, place a platter on top of the Bundt plan and turn the platter and the pan upside down on your kitchen counter. When the cake has cooled enough, it will fall out of the Bundt pan and onto the platter.

  13. When the cake is completely cool, glaze it with Pink Grapefruit Glaze.

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