This is our easy cake mix Easter bundt cake recipe, like our favorite Pudding Cake, as a dessert for the holidays. With chocolate eggs or sprinkles on top, this is perfect for Spring that will become a family favorite treat.
This fun pudding bundt cake is always a hit. Decorated for the holidays in a number of different ways you could make into mini sizes to take home or make a few different designs to serve a crowd. Done in about an hour you have to make this now!
We have tweaked this same design in a number of different ways. Like we did with our Cake Mix Mardi Gras Cake you can use different colors and flavors of cake as well as frosting. And the decorations are too many to mention. You can order any design of sprinkles or candies online to match your party theme.
If you too love cake mix hacks this is one you can make all year long and nobody will know that the base is literally the same thing. You could go with strawberry for a pink hue or lemon for a bright yellow which works for the changing of the seasons as well.
Now if you are making this with kids they can help with the mixing and decorating process for sure. If they are antsy when it is baking you can grab our Free Easter Color by Number and let them have fun with that. Once decorated it should be close to done. Make sure you allow it to cool completely though or it will be a huge mess.
Ingredient Notes
Box cake mix is the base for the dry ingredients, white was used, 14.25 oz from Betty Crocker. Duncan Hines is another great brand with quality ingredients. Here I used white but other times I have started with our Duncan Hines Lemon Bundt Cake which brings even more color to every bite and is like a slice of sunshine when served.
- 1 box instant pudding mix vanilla will make it really really moist. You add just the contents and do not prepare as directed on the box first.
- Your eggs should be added at room temperature to make it as light and fluffy as possible.
- For your milk, whole or 2% is best. Dairy free alternatives would work too.
- Vegetable oil we used
- 1 tub of frosting – vanilla used but could be colored with pink or green food coloring to look like grass
- Candies candy coated easter eggs
Variations
You can make this dairy free with lactose free milk product, cashew is creamiest or vanilla almond works. Instead of oil you can substitute sour cream or plain Greek yogurt even.
How to Make an Easter Poke Cake
You could make this Boxed Cake Mix Recipe a layer cake if you sliced it in half and add frosting or poke holes pouring condensed milk into it for extra wow. When served you could add a bit of Cool Whip or whipped cream but we don’t think that is necessary. It will bake about 30 minutes to cool so take that into account when preparing things. Jump to recipe and get started.
Easter Bundt Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 box cake mix, white used, 14.25 oz
- 1 box instant pudding mix, vanilla
- 4 large eggs
- 3/4 cup milk
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tub frosting, vanilla
- 12 small candies, candy coated easter eggs
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, whisk together the cake mix and pudding mix. Add eggs, milk and vegetable oil. Mix until you have a smooth batter.
- Spray your bundt pan with nonstick spray. Pour the batter in your pan and bake for approximately 40-45 minutes until toothpick comes out mostly clean with moist crumbs attached.
- Remove the cake from your oven and let sit on a cooling rack before turning out onto a plate. Spoon frosting into a pastry bag with a tip or a freezer bag zipped with corner cut off.
- Once the cake is completely cool, decorate with frosting swiped back and forth all the way around. Set chocolate eggs on top, or use pastel sprinkles.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I wouldn’t recommend it. Putting hot food into the fridge will create a moisture on the outside that you don’t want. The texture will change to a sticky moist touch. Instead after you bake the cake just sit on a cooling rack on the counter until cooled before frosting. Save leftovers with plastic wrap on outside.
Other Easter Desserts You’ll Love
As you can see we are all about semi-homemade dessert ideas. We do something similar with our Easy Easter Egg Bread where we start with frozen dough, slightly defrost and roll out into that classic braided shape and look with the same candies on top!!
If you really want to go over the edge we show you How to Make Chocolate Surprise Eggs which you can fill with little marshmallow and other treats inside so they spill out when bitten into. Super pretty decorating the top. Use different colors of chocolate to make the molds for ultimate cuteness.
I mean you don’t only have cake you can make festive. We have a lot of Easy Cute Easter Desserts here you can choose from. We are tackling the bundt this time though since it it so versatile and you only need a few ingredients. The pudding is optional but provides a ton of moisture and makes it more tender than you’ll ever try with anything else.
Our Simple Italian Easter Cookies we like too because the decor can be varied on the top as well. You can prep the batter when this one is baking and then swap out when it is done and cooling. Perfect duo.
