White Chocolate Bundt Cake

White Chocolate Bundt Cake 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened, + 1 Tbs. To coat pan 2 cups sugar, + 2 Tbs. For sugaring the pan 3 cups flour 1 tsp. Baking powder 1/4 tsp. Baking soda 1/2 tsp. Salt 1-1/2 tsp. Vanilla extract 1/2 tsp. Almond extract 5 eggs, room temperature 4 oz. White chocolate, melted, still warm Plus 4 oz. White chocolate chunks or chips, divided 1 cup sour cream 4 oz. Semisweet chocolate, melted and still warm WHITE CHOCOLATE GANACHE: 8 oz. White chocolate, coarsely chopped 1/2 cup whipping cream

Heat oven to 350. Coat a 10-12 cup fluted tube pan with 1 Tbs. Butter, then sprinkle with 2 Tbs. Sugar. Into medium bowl, sift Together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Put remaining 1 Cup butter and 2 cups sugar in large bowl and cream with electric Mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add extracts and eggs, One at a time, beating 20 seconds after each addition. Slowly beat In the 4 oz. Melted white chocolate. Scrape bowl done. Add flour Mixture to butter mixture in third, alternating with the sour cream. Beat 45 seconds after each addition. Place batter in prepared pan in 3 layers, separateing each layer with some of the remaining 4 oz. White chocolate chunks or chips. Bake 55-60 minutes, or until done. Top will be brown and a cake tester inserted into center will come Out with a few crumbs on it. Remove cake to a wire rack to cool for 15 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack and cool to room Temperature.

While cake cools, make white chocolate ganache. In a glass bowl Covered with plastic wrap, heat white chocolate with cream on high in Microwave oven in 30-second intervals, stirring after each interval, Until smooth. When ganache is done, let it cool about 10 minutes, Then drizzle over cake in a decorative pattern. Pour melted Semisweet chocolate into a squeeze bottle and squeeze it over the White chocolate in a decorative pattern. Transfer cake to serving Platter.

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