This Bundt cake, adapted from a recipe in Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking, comes together with just one bowl and no mixer, but is deliciously rich, moist, tender, and deeply flavored.
Election cakes were so popular in Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1800s that they were dubbed 'Hartford Election Cakes.' The first known published recipe appears in Amelia Simmons’ 1796 “American ...