This easy Crack Cake Recipe starts out with a box cake mix and dresses it up with vanilla pudding and white wine for an experience so addictive you won’t be able to just have one piece!
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When something is called Crack Cake, you probably already know a lot about it. I mean, if it is just a mediocre cake, no one would dare call it Crack Cake, right? A cake so addictive that once you eat it, you just won’t be able to stop? So, get ready to elevate your expectations for this sugary, sweet, moist and soft bundt cake that will change your life!
I think it’s always important to have a good, slightly outside of the box, cake recipe on hand for different occasions. There are potlucks, pitch ins, birthday parties and celebrations that are all give you the opportunity for a really fun cake recipe. And, while this cake recipe IS slightly outside of the box, it all starts off INSIDE the box. And by that, I mean it is based off a box cake mix.
What Is A Box Cake Mix Recipe
These cake recipes are all the rage right now on the internet. There are a ton of at-home bakers taking store bought cake mix recipes and adding some flair to them to make extravagant and exciting desserts. It’s so fun to take a box cake mix and think about all the things that you can add to it to create some fabulous flair to a new recipe!
This Crack Cake Recipe starts out with a Yellow Cake Mix and, among other things, adds some vanilla instant pudding and white wine to create a flavor you won’t be able to forget about!
Crack Cake Recipe
Just like a lot of recipes here at Bubba Pie, we love that this one only has a handful of ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen right now!
Cake Ingredients:
- 1 package, 15.25 oz, yellow cake mix
- 1 small package, 3.4 oz, instant vanilla pudding
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup oil
- 1/2 cup white wine
Sauce Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup white wine
Crack Cake Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 and grease a bundt pan generously with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside.
- Add cake mix, vanilla pudding, sugars and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl and mix well.
- Add eggs, water, oil and wine and mix well until combined.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and set aside for 10 minutes while making the sauce.
- To make the sauce, add butter, sugar and wine to a sauce pan.
- Heat over medium heat stirring frequently until boiling. Continue to stir and boil for 1 minute or until sugar is no longer grainy.
- Pour over warm cake and let set before inverting cake onto a plate.
- Cut and serve warm.
Do You Need To Use Wine In This Crack Cake Recipe?
The white wine does give it the unique flavor, and omitting it would certainly change that. Contrary to popular believe, alcohol rarely completely cooks out of dishes when used. There is usually some amount left. So, if you need to avoid alcohol, you may want to try this dish without it or avoid it all together.
Other Tips and Tricks
Just like with many other bundt cakes, you want to make sure that you really grease the pan so that the cake does not stick. Also, feel free to add some food coloring to the frosting to make it a bit more festive: orange for Halloween, red for Christmas, etc. It would also be awesome to use a funfetti cake mix for a birthday or a kid’s party!
I hope you enjoy this crack cake recipe. Let me know how it turns out in the comments!
Crack Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- Cake Ingredients:
- 1 package 15.25 oz, yellow cake mix
- 1 small package 3.4 oz, instant vanilla pudding
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup oil
- 1/2 cup white wine
- Sauce Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup white wine
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and grease a bundt pan generously with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside.
- Add cake mix, vanilla pudding, sugars and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl and mix well.
- Add eggs, water, oil and wine and mix well until combined.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and set aside for 10 minutes while making the sauce.
- To make the sauce, add butter, sugar and wine to a sauce pan.
- Heat over medium heat stirring frequently until boiling. Continue to stir and boil for 1 minute or until sugar is no longer grainy.
- Pour over warm cake and let set before inverting cake onto a plate.
- Cut and serve warm.
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