Irish cream Bundt cake with chocolate chips

Irish cream Bundt cake is the perfect dessert for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Studded with chocolate chips and drizzled with a simple powdered sugar and Bailey’s glaze, this cake is made even more festive with colorful shamrock sprinkles.

This Irish cream Bundt is made completely from scratch! No cake mixes here.

Chocolate chip Irish cream Bundt cake

This Bundt cake is perfect for feeding a crowd. The chocolate chips give it a bit of sweetness, as does the Irish cream liqueur.

Make this delicious Bundt cake while you’re baking a loaf of Irish soda bread to go with your St. Patrick’s Day dinner.

Ingredients

For this simple Bundt cake, we’re using common pantry ingredients. You probably have everything you need, maybe even the Irish liqueur!

• Flour – regular, all purpose flour
• Chocolate chips – use whatever you have or prefer. I used bittersweet chips.
• Eggs – room temp, large.
• Baking powder – check the date to make sure it is not expired.
• Salt – kosher salt or fine sea salt.
• Vanilla – pure vanilla extract.
• Sugar – regular granulated, or caster sugar.
• Irish cream liqueur
• Cream – heavy cream, also called double cream.
• Butter – always unsalted, it provides rich, delicious flavor to baked goods.
• Oil – a neutral oil like canola or grapeseed will help baked goods retain moisture.

Pro tip: Weigh your flour. This is by far the most accurate way to measure flour.

How to make an Irish cream Bundt cake from scratch

Making a Bundt cake is no different than making any cake recipe, but I will say the one thing that is extra important is attention to detail when it comes to flouring the cake pan.

A Bundt pan has crevices and places where cake batter can stick. Take your time and do a very thorough job. The extra few minutes you spend here will guarantee successful unmolding later.

Pro tip: Use gloves when buttering the pan! Your fingernails (even short ones) can scrape the sides and remove the butter. The flour won’t stick to that spot, but your cake will.

1. Whisk dry ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
2. Cream butter and sugar in mixer.
3. Add eggs, one at a time.
4. Add remaining ingredients, except chocolate chips.

5. Fold in chocolate chips with a rubber spatula.

6. Pour cake batter into floured pan.

7. Smooth the top with a rubber spatula, then bake for about an hour.

8. Notice how the edges of the cake have started to pull away from the sides of the pan? We’re ready to unmold.

Bailey’s Bundt cake glaze

This glaze is quick and easy, and uses only a few ingredients.

You can make it as thick or as thin as you like it by adjusting the powdered sugar, cream cheese or the Irish cream liqueur.

If it is too thin, add a bit more powdered sugar or cream cheese. If it is too thick, add a teaspoon or two of liquid.

I like this glaze to be somewhere in the middle. Pourable, but still thick enough to thoroughly coat the cake and not run right off.

Decorate the Irish cream Bundt cake with fun sprinkles while the glaze is still wet. I like to do this with the cake on a cooling rack placed inside of a sheet pan. It makes for easier cleanup.

Bundt cake FAQ’s and tips for success

Tools and equipment

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• 12 cup Bundt pan – this is the exact pan that I used for this recipe.
• Stand mixer – just slightly smaller than the one I own, this is a great mixer.
• Cordless hand mixer – this cordless version will also get the job done, with no tangled cord in the way.

Irish cream Bundt cake variations

I added bittersweet chocolate chips to my Irish cream Bundt cake, but you can swap them out and make endless variations to this recipe. Another option is to omit them and have a plain Bailey’s Bundt cake.

Nuts: Chopped pecans, walnuts or hazelnuts would be nice here. Just make sure you toast them before adding to the cake batter.

Chocolate: My “go to” chips are bittersweet chocolate, because they are less sweet. If you prefer a sweeter chip, try semisweet, milk chocolate or white chocolate.

More Bundt cake recipes

• Blueberry buttermilk Bundt cake
• Chocolate Bundt cake recipe

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