Instant Pot Coconut Bundt Cake

❤️ Why you’ll love this recipe: This little cake looks amazing but it’s SO easy to make because it starts with a boxed mix. It “bakes” up fluffy and delicious in the pressure cooker!

While you might associate Easter desserts with chocolate, this year, we’re going a totally new route with a light, fluffy, and airy pressure cooker coconut bundt cake for dessert.

This tropical-flavored white cake is topped with a simple buttery glaze and decorated with Cadbury mini eggs for the perfect sweet treat at the end of a holiday meal.

It’s also quick and easy to make since it starts with a white cake mix, so you can skip measuring out all the dry ingredients.

Best of all, because the cake bakes right in your Instant Pot / pressure cooker, you can save your oven space for making some fresh hot cross buns.

How to Make Instant Pot Coconut Cake

This Instant Pot Coconut Bundt Cake recipe will work in any brand of electric pressure cooker, including the Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi, or Power Pressure Cooker XL.

This recipe is quick and easy. Boxed cake mix includes all of the dry ingredients you need. The rich coconut flavor comes from coconut oil, extract, and flakes. And a bit of tanginess and moisture comes from sour cream, which also helps the cake rise well. 

There is one very important step in this recipe to ensure that your cake comes out moist on the inside, but not soggy: Be sure to cover the filled cake pan with a paper towel and tightly seal closed with aluminum foil before placing it into the Instant Pot. (The towel is necessary to absorb moisture from the steam during cooking.) 

Accessories for Baking in an Instant Pot

There are a few key pieces of kitchen equipment to make this simple cake in the Instant Pot:

• First, you’ll need a bundt cake pan that’s the right size to fit inside your pressure cooker. For my 6-quart Instant Pot, I use a half bundt pan from Nordic Ware. 
• You’ll also need a trivet to hold the pan in the pressure cooking pot above the water. This sturdy trivet is my go-to tool for dozens of Instant Pot recipes. 
• Finally, a sling is necessary for both placing the bundt pan in the pressure cooking pot and removing it after cooking. You can make your own with aluminum foil or, if you’re a regular Instant Pot user, I highly recommend having a reusable sling. 

The good thing is that you can use these Instant Pot accessories for a number of other recipes, from egg salad sandwiches to chocolate cake. 

If you’re making this Instant Pot Coconut Cake for Easter, have some fun and dress it up like a bird’s nest! All you need is toasted coconut flakes and Cadbury Mini Eggs for a touch of pastel color and creamy milk chocolate. 

To assemble the bird’s nest cake, roll a sheet of wax paper into a ball that will fill in the center of the cake. This will fill the gap and you can place the Mini Eggs on top. Glaze the cake with the wax paper in place, then top with your toasted coconut and eggs. 

On the other hand, if you’re not holding back and want the fun surprise of eggs spilling out when you remove the first slice, you can fill the entire center up with Mini Eggs. My kids loved this!

More Instant Pot Desserts for Spring

Coconut cake isn’t the only Instant Pot dessert you can make this spring! Try these other seasonal treats too:

• Instant Pot Meyer Lemon Cheesecake is sunny, citrusy, and creamy thanks to the tangy cream cheese filling. 
• Robin Eggs Mini Cheesecakes are an adorable individual Easter treat topped with everyone’s favorite chocolate egg candies. 
• Pressure Cooker Raspberry Curd is bright, tart, and a beautiful shade of purple to smear on toast or fill pastries.