White Chocolate Bundt Cake

== Description ==
Contributed by Catsrecipes Y-Group
== Ingredients ==
* 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened, + 1 tbsp to coat pan
* 2 cups sugar + 2 tbsp for sugaring the pan
* 3 cups flour
* 1 tsp. baking powder
* ¼ tsp baking soda
* ½ tsp salt
* 1½ tsp vanilla extract
* ½ tsp almond extract
* 5 eggs, room temperature
* 4 oz white chocolate, melted, still warm + 4 oz white chocolate chunks or chips, divided
* 1 cup [[sour cream
* 4 oz semisweet chocolate, melted and still warm
=== White chocolate ganache ===
* 8 oz white chocolate, coarsely chopped
* ½ cup whipping cream
== Directions ==
# Heat oven to 350°F.
# Coat a 10-12 cup fluted tube pan with 1 tbsp butter, then sprinkle with 2 tbsp sugar.
# Into medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
# Put remaining 1 cup butter and 2 cups sugar in large bowl and cream with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
# Add extracts and eggs, one at a time, beating 20 seconds after each addition.
# Slowly beat in the 4 oz melted white chocolate.
# Scrape bowl done.
# Add flour mixture to butter mixture in third, alternating with the sour cream.
# Beat 45 seconds after each addition.
# Place batter in prepared pan in 3 layers, separating each layer with some of the remaining 4 oz white chocolate chunks or chips.
# Bake 55 – 60 minutes, or until done.
# Top will be brown and a cake tester inserted into center will come out with a few crumbs on it.
# Remove cake to a wire rack to cool for 15 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack and cool to room temperature.
# While cake cools, make white chocolate ganache. 
=== White chocolate ganache ===
# In a glass bowl covered with plastic wrap, heat white chocolate with cream on high in microwave oven in 30-second intervals, stirring after each interval, until smooth.
# When ganache is done, let it cool about 10 minutes, then drizzle over cake in a decorative pattern.
# Pour melted semisweet chocolate into a squeeze bottle and squeeze it over the white chocolate in a decorative pattern.
# Transfer cake to serving platter.
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Category:Cake Recipes