It’s one bowl, no mixer, easy, foolproof Pesach cake!
Editor’s Note: We’re very excited for the release of Miriam (Pascal) Cohen’s Real Life Pesach Cooking: Pesach Prep–and Pesach Food–for the Way You Live. Miriam’s recipes are always practical and many of them are soon to be iconic Pesach must-haves (that’s including this cake below!).
Throughout the book, Miriam uses basic ingredients so there’s no need to stock your house with lots of random ingredients that you might use only once. Plus–your food will feel fresh and wholesome.
We’ll be sharing two recipes from Miriam and the first is this Ultimate Pesach Vanilla Cake. You know Miriam is a bundt cake expert ever since her debut cookbook Something Sweet. Now, let’s hear from Miriam on how this cake came about…
“Sometimes, in order to consider something the “ultimate,” I test it over and over and over again, tweaking each time, to get it just right. That was not the case with this recipe! I made it once, and it was great. I quickly shared the recipe with my sisters, and they all loved it as well. I asked each of them, “Any critique? Any changes I should make?” But they all insisted it was perfect. So I left it. Here it is — in all its original version’s no-mixer, one-bowl glory.
Ultimate Pesach Vanilla Cake
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- 1½ cups sugar
- ½ cup oil
- 1 (3.25-oz) package vanilla pudding mix
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- pinch salt
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1 cup potato starch
Vanilla Glaze:
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp almond milk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a Bundt pan, a 9×13-inch pan, or two 2-lb loaf pans well; set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, oil, pudding mix, baking powder, vanilla, and salt until combined and creamy.
- Gradually add almond flour and potato starch; stir until a batter forms.
- Pour batter into prepared pan(s). Bake about 45 minutes for a Bundt pan, 50-55 minutes for a 9×13-inch pan, and 40-45 minutes for loaf pans, until the tops feel firm.
- Prepare glaze: stir all glaze ingredients together in a small bowl until smooth. Drizzle over cooled cake.
Notes
Looks great! I dont have a Pesachdik bundt pan. Would this work in a disposable one? Or a 9×13 pan? Would baking time be different?
I much prefer making pesach cakes in 9x13s since they stack nicely and take up less room in the freezer. Also easier to keep covered on the counter than a high bundt cake (I dont have a cake cover either for Pesach)
Instructions for a 9×13 are in the recipe.
Thank you, missed that!
Any option for those with nut allergy?
Please post an almond flour equivalent for those with nut allergy. I love your new recipe book, but the baking section is heavy on the almond flour. Can I use the same amount potato starch? (I know the density is diff. So i am loathe to try and waste a cake)
either there an alternative to vanilla pudding?
can the pudding be omitted? if yes should I add more or less of any of the other ingredients?
Can this be baked in 9″ rounds and will it hold it’s shape (like Miriam’s ultimate vanilla bundt cake from Something Sweet)?
Is the Pudding suppose to be instant pudding? I made 4 batches and after an hour in the oven in loaf pans the cake would not set…
Same problem as mentioned above about nut allergy. Any substitution for almond flour?
I made this for my machatenisteh’s birthday on Yom Tov. What a hit! Everybody loved it. I bought an inexpensive Bundt pan at Walmart before Pesach, it came out beautifully. Definitely going to add this to my repertoire!
This cake is a real winner!
I made this cake for a guest on a gluten-free diet and a different cake for everyone else. We still have some of the regular cake left.
But this one didn’t even wait for me to make a glaze.
It was gone!
Everyone who ate it couldn’t believe it wasn’t chometz. This is going to be one of the things I make every year.
I made this cake for yom tov on erev shabbes- there was no cake left by Sunday. you have no idea that it is almond flour. It is a moist delicious cake that you think is chometz!!! Fabulous cake, Im making it for last days of yom tov!!! Thank you! Gut Yom Tov!!