There is something so fun about serving desserts in miniature size, and these gluten-free blood orange mini bundt cakes are delightfully good! These gluten-free mini cakes have zest and juice from 2 blood oranges in the batter as well as dots of poppyseeds. They are drizzled with a blood orange glaze making them over-the-top delicious.

These easy-to-make gluten-free bundt cakes are moist and loaded with blood orange flavour. All baked in a mini bundt pan and then drizzled with a sweet and simple blood orange glaze. These elegant mini cakes are good to make now while blood oranges are still available.

These mini bundt cakes are as portable as a cupcake, but the uniqueness of blood oranges and poppyseeds makes them irresistible. I use this mini bundt pan to make these gluten-free treats.

WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE THESE MINI BUNDT CAKES:

• Butter
• White Sugar
• Eggs
• Juice and zest from 2 blood oranges
• Vanilla
• Gluten-Free Flour Blend (1 to 1)
• Poppyseeds
• Gluten-free baking powder
• Baking soda
• Buttermilk
• 1/2 cup fresh blood orange juice
• 1 1/2 cup icing sugar

These blood orange mini bundt cakes are made from scratch using simple ingredients. I used fresh blood orange juice and zest in the recipe. If for some reason you cannot find blood oranges, you can use grapefruit or navel oranges. The icing colour will not be the same if you use other citrus fruits. Blood oranges are milder in citrus flavour, but with a hint of raspberry. The colour makes everything a beautiful pink colour.

For zesting citrus:

I use a fine microplane zester that I bought years ago at Williams Sonoma, but I found a similar one on Amazon.

Here are some more cake recipes to try:

• Gluten-free lime and poppyseed cake
• Gluten-free rhubarb cake
• Simple vanilla cake
• Gluten-free banana sheet cake

HERE IS HOW TO MAKE THESE CAKES:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease a 6 mini bundt cake pan well.
3. In a stand mixer add the softened butter and sugar and mix well.
4. Add the eggs and beat on high speed until smooth. Scraping sides of bowl to incorporate all.
5. Add the juice and zest from blood oranges as well as the vanilla.
6. In a small bowl whisk the dry ingredients together.
7. Add the dry ingredients plus the buttermilk and beat until the batter is smooth.
8. Pour batter into the greased mini bundt pan and bake for 25 minutes.
9. Remove and cool before glazing.
10. To glaze-whisk the glaze ingredients together and pour a small amount over each cake.

These darling mini blood orange bundt cakes are a grown-up version of a plain bundt cake. The gorgeous pink hue of the glaze comes from the natural colouring of the blood orange juice. If you use a different citrus fruit in the recipe, just be mindful that the glaze will be white instead.

The blood orange mini cakes are what pink dreams are made of. The cake are fluffy and moist and the flavour of the blood orange is EVERYTHING! And the blood orange glaze is lightly sweet and incredibly easy to make. Head to the grocery store today and pick yourself up some blood oranges stat, and make these mini cake.

The bundt cake batter is pretty straightforward in its ingredients: butter, sugar, eggs, blood orange juice, gluten-free flour and buttermilk. Adding the poppyseeds and the unique citrus notes of the blood orange juice and zest takes these mini cakes to a better level. But that pretty pink icing? Who am I kidding? I love that.

Here are more citrus recipes to try:

Gluten-free citrus bars

Grain-free lemon and lavender poppyseed loaf

Keto lemon donuts

Gluten-free Meyer lemon lemonade syrup

Ingredients like the blood orange juice and zest plus the poppyseeds take these mini cakes from average to amazing. I am thrilled to share this gluten-free blood orange mini bundt cake recipe with you today! Who’s ready to get started baking?

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Gluten-Free Blood Orange Mini Bundt Cakes

These easy to make gluten-free mini bundt cakes are moist, dotted with poppyseeds and loaded with fresh blood orange flavour.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 25 minutes mins

Total Time 35 minutes mins

Course bundt, cake, Dessert, gluten-free

Cuisine American

Servings 6

Equipment

• stand mixer
• whisk
• bowls
• measuring cups
• mini bundt cake pan

Ingredients

  

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• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 blood oranges, juice and zest
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cup gluten-free flour blend (1 to 1)
• 1/4 cup poppyseeds
• 1/2 tsp gluten-free baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup blood orange juice
• 1 1/2 cup icing sugar

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 6 mini bundt cake pan well.
• In a stand mixer add the softened butter and sugar and mix well.
• Add the eggs and beat on high speed until smooth. Scraping sides of bowl to incorporate all.
• Add the juice and zest from the blood oranges as well as the vanilla.
• In a small bowl whisk the dry ingredients together.
• Add the dry ingredients plus the buttermilk and beat until batter is smooth.
• Pour batter into the small greased bundt pan and bake for 25 minute.
• Remove and cool before glazing.
• To glaze-whisk the blood orange juice and icing sugar togehter and pour a small amount over each cake.

Keyword blood orange, bundt, bundt cake, cake, dessert, gluten-free

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