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The Fresh Fall Ingredients You Need To Transform A Bland Bundt Cake By Alexandra Fay Dec. 12, 2025 8:00 am EST

Slice into a plain, boring Bundt cake during the chillier months of the year and you'll know instantly that something major went missing. Fall deserves more than that. It's the moment to lean into autumn warmth and actual flavor, the kind that takes a bland cake into full sweater weather mode. Two ingredients do that work better than anything else: apple cider and apple butter. Together they make a Bundt cake taste like a giant apple cider donut (maybe even better) — the finished dessert lands perfectly between tender, moist, glossy, and fragrant.

Using apple cider brings both moisture and flavor, and the best results come from reducing it until it ta

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