Community Pick
Brown Sugar Bundt Cake
photo by SharonChen
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
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1 cake
- Serves:
- 10-12
ingredients
- 1 (18 ounce) box yellow cake mix
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) box instant vanilla flavor pudding and pie filling
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup chopped pecans
directions
- Grease a 10-inch bundt pan well and sprinkle pan with granulated sugar (even if using non-stick pan).
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, oil and water in large bowl and beat on medium speed until well mixed, about 4 minutes.
- (Shorten to 2-3 minutes if using stand mixer).
- Add brown sugar and pecans and mix to combine well.
- Pour batter evenly into prepared bundt pan and bake for 1 hour or until cake tester comes out clean.
- Place bundt pan on wire rack and cool 15 minutes.
- Invert cake onto rack and slip pan off cake.
- Let cool on rack.
- Can be stored covered at room temperature.
Questions & Replies
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Did anyone else have an exploding cake? We live at 7500 ft altitude, and I tried to adjust. Our cake mix (Duncan Hines yellow cake) was only about 15 ounces, and I wanted to adjust for altitude, so I added 1/4 cup flour and elevated the temp to 375 F, planning on decreasing the cooking time. It was an explosion of cake. I am so glad that our pizza stone was there to catch all of the dripping cake batter. Any advice?
Reviews
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Ok, I keep forgetting to rate this cake, so I figured it was about time as I have made it numerous times. I pretty much always use dark brown sugar in all my recipes ( I love the taste). I am not a fan of pecans, so I use walnuts. I love to chop up the walnuts and toast them before adding them to a recipe. I also like to add cinnamon to the batter. When I make this cake I sprinkle the sugar on the greased pan and then add some toasted walnuts. I then pour half the batter in the bottom and sprinkle a little more brown sugar, some cinnamon and some of the toasted walnuts. I then pour the remaining batter over the walnut filling. This cake is just AWESOME! Super moist and delicious! Great for dessert or a great breakfast cake. Thanks for the super recipe :)<br/>I have to update - I make this cake all the time, different flavors and different spice. I have made it with german chocolate cake and chocolate chips and I even make it with a strusel layer in the middle. I made it just recently with a yellow cake mix and pumpkin flavored pudding~AWESOME! Try it any which way and you will love it!!!!!!!
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This cake is AMAZING! It's moist, perfectly sweet, and beautiful looking. Just wonderful! I didn't add the chopped nuts (I used walnuts) into the cake batter. Instead, I made an easy caramel sauce and poured over the cake, then sprinkled chopped nuts on top. My family loved it! Thank you for the great recipe! Definitely a keeper!
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Tweaks
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This was a hit at my Christmas get together. The only thing I changed was, I added banana cream pudding instead of vanilla. And when baked and cooled I drizzled a chocolate glaze over it. It was sooooo good. And so easy to make. Next time I'll try it with vanilla pudding. I'll be making this again. Thanks for a great recipe.
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I was looking for something special to do with a boxed cake mix and was so glad to find this recipe. It was de lish! I didn't have any oil on hand so I just melted margarine instead. I added a glaze over top using about 2 cup powdered sugar, 2 T melted butter 1/4 tsp vanilla and enough canned milk to stir the mix into a glaze.
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