Last Updated January 4th, 2024 at 11:09 pm by Lisa
Bake a Christmas Cake loaded with your favorite holiday flavors of peppermint. This Christmassy bake is gorgeous for a fancy holiday dinner party and easy enough to make with kids for a merry, joyful, perfect dessert...
With a little time and simple ingredients, this will become a favorite way to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.
What Are The Best Christmas Treats?
- Last year I created this new recipe with easy ingredients I had on hand to take to a Christmas dinner party. It was a hit!
- Use candy canes or any peppermint candies in place of the See's Peppermint Twists.
- Gorgeous cakes can be the centerpiece of your holiday dessert table. There are so many beautiful bundt pans for sale to bake in during the holidays, check on line and in stores like HomeGoods.
- One of the most easy Christmas cake recipes ever!
- The perfect holiday treat to make for the family with fluffy cake frosting.
- Bake a delicious cake to enjoy after opening Christmas gifts.
- Enjoy a slice of this frosted white Christmas cake the next day with a hot cup of coffee or tea anytime during the season.
- One of the most show-stopping cake recipes to bring to a holiday party potluck for lots of Christmassy ooohhsss and awwwssss.
Peppermint Christmas Cake Recipe
Most Christmas cakes are fancy and complicated. When you have a special occasion like a family party, you want a go-to recipe, and this is it!
PRO TIP: All of the ingredients need to be at room temperature, it is the perfect cake for Christmas days or to get in that holiday spirit anytime!
- all purpose flour
- baking powder
- sea salt
- butter
- granulated sugar
- eggs
- vegetable oil
- peppermint extract
- peppermint mocha coffee creamer
- See's Candies Peppermint Twists
Peppermint Cream Cheese Frosting
- cream cheese
- butter
- powdered sugar
- peppermint mocha coffee creamer
Spray the bundt pan with coconut oil and sprinkle well with flour, I recommend this even with non-stick bundt pans. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Sift together 3 cups of flour, 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder, and ¾ teaspoon sea salt onto a piece of parchment paper or wax paper.
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In a mixer, whip together 1 ¼ cups butter and 1 ⅔ cups granulated sugar. Crack four eggs into a bowl, and lightly beat. Mix eggs into butter and sugar. Add ½ teaspoon of peppermint extract. Add ½ cup vegetable oil.
Slowly add portions of the flour mixture and peppermint creamer until all teh ingredients are fully incorporated.
Pour the batter into the pan, and make the sides higher than the center.
Bake for 60 minutes or up to 65-70 minutes until the toothpick comes out clean.
Top Cake Baking Tips:
- Bake on the top rack.
- Rotate the pan halfway through.
- If baking ahead, wrap the baked cake in plastic wrap to keep moist.
Mix Peppermint Frosting & Decorate
In a mixer, combine 8 ounces of soft cream cheese, ¼ cup butter, 2 cups powdered sugar, and 2 tablespoons peppermint mocha coffee creamer.
Cool the cake before frosting. You can decorate it on a circle of white cardboard, which makes it the perfect way to transport it. Put a dollop of frosting down to keep it from sliding or moving as you decorate.
Pipe peppermint buttercream on the top of the cake, and use a large round tip.
I decided to pipe it on top of the spirals of the baked bundt cake. Sprinkle the crushed peppermint candies on the frosting, and put some whole candy in the center. Crush the candy in a plastic bag with a rolling pin or chop it on a board.
How to Serve Holiday Cakes
Serve on a pretty cake stand, holiday plate, or platter.
It also helps to frost it on a small round piece of white cake cardboard to make it easy to transport and move onto a cake plate or plate.
You can cut it so it just fits underneath so you don't see it, I did that after this photo so it was prettier.
Christmas Bundt Cake Variations & Swaps
Candy Cane Layered Cake: Instead of baking in a bundt pan, you can bake this recipe in regular cake pans. Use a loaf pan, or make round or square two or three-layers. Simply slice and make luscious layered cakes and put frosting between the cake layers.
You can keep it simple and dust it with powdered sugar, and for those with a sweet tooth, go all in and cover it with this peppermint frosting or my whipped bakery-style Frosting.
White Chocolate: Add in some white peppermint chocolate chips or chopped peppermint bark candy.
Cake Flour: Swap in cake flour for AP flour, simply add 2 more tablespoons per cup of flour. So for this recipe, you will add an extra 6 tablespoons of cake flour.
Vegetable Oil: The addition of oil helps to make a moist cake, and I highly recommend it.
The most popular traditional desserts are a yule log cake or bûche de noël, gingerbread cake, fruit cake, or gingerbread house.
More Holiday Baking Recipes
Take a look at all my Christmas dinner table recipe ideas with the best ways to plan and serve holiday meals.
Santa's Christmas Cookies can be decorated with kids' wish lists written on dry royal icing. Place these sugar cookies on a glass of cold milk or hot chocolate, and Santa will Ho Ho Ho!
Make Nut Goodie Candy Bars a Christmas family favorite tradition, so amazing and ideal for chocolate lovers!
Taste the difference in homemade frostings, ice cream, holiday cookies, cakes, pies, and other desserts, and make your own Vanilla Extract!
Make a Peppermint Candy Plate in only 20 minutes. Serve cookies, candy, hot cocoa, coffee, tea, festive drinks, or holiday cocktails. Put out for the holidays, or take to a potluck Christmas party.
Shortbread Christmas Cookies are baked with peppermint white chocolate and macadamia nuts, these have a little extra holiday cheer that says Mele Kalikimaka and Aloha!
Bake these wildly popular and "cookie-exchange" winning Santa’s Chocolate Chip Peppermint Cookies, and you can freeze the cookie dough to bake these peppermint chocolate treats all during the holiday season!
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Peppermint Christmas Cake Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
bundt cake
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 ¼ cups butter
- 1 ⅔ cups granulated sugar
- 4 whole eggs
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon Peppermint Extract
- 1 ¼ cups peppermint mocha coffee creamer
- 1 bag See's Candies Peppermint Twists or candy canes
peppermint cream cheese frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- ¼ cup butter
- 2 cups powder sugar
- 2 tablespoons peppermint mocha coffee creamer
Instructions
bundt cake
- Note: all the ingredients need to be at room temperature.
- Spray the bundt pan (even non-stick pans) with coconut oil and sprinkle with flour until very well coated. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Sift together 3 cups of flour, 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder, and ¾ teaspoon sea salt onto a piece of parchment paper or wax paper.
- In a mixer, whip together 1 ¼ cups room temperature butter and 1 ⅔ cups granulated sugar. Crack four eggs into a bowl, and lightly beat mixing eggs into butter and sugar. Next, add ½ teaspoon of peppermint extract and ½ cup vegetable oil. Whisk on low until combined.
- Next, slowly add portions of the flour mixture alternating with the peppermint creamer until fully incorporated in the mixer.
- Pour the cake batter into the cake pan, and make the sides slightly higher than the center, this is a thicker batter.
- Bake 60 minutes, or up to 65-70 minutes until the toothpick comes out clean. Bake on the top rack. Rotate the pan halfway through. Remove to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn out the cake from the pan onto the rack to finish cooling.
peppermint sour cream frosting
- In a mixer, combine 8 ounces soft cream cheese, ¼ cup of soft butter, 2 cups of powdered sugar, and 2 tablespoons of peppermint mocha coffee creamer. You can add a ½ teaspoon of peppermint extract if you like extra peppermint flavor.
- Load the peppermint buttercream into a pastry bag fitted with a large round tip. It helps to use a tall glass to hold the bag while you fill it with a spatula.
decorate the Christmas cake
- Cool the cake before frosting. Crush the peppermints (or candy canes) in a plastic bag with a rolling pin and leave some whole to put inside the center of the bundt cake if you use that type of cake pan.
- Pipe peppermint buttercream on the top of the cake. If you use a spiral pan like mine, you can frost down the spirals of the cake and put some in the center. Sprinkle the crushed peppermint candies on the frosting, and put more candy into the center of the cake.
- If baking ahead, wrap the baked cake in plastic wrap to keep moist or keep in a cake carrier.
Notes
Top Cake Baking Tips
- Bake on the top rack.
- Rotate the pan halfway through.
- If baking ahead, wrap the baked cake in plastic wrap to keep moist.
Such a great holiday tradition! This Christmas Cake recipe is a keeper!
Baked this for my office party, and this peppermint cake was beautiful on the table and so delicious. Every last slice was gone!