for our party friday, I made two of my favorite simple recipes.
my crack cake + cheese ring.
they take minimal effort and can be made in advance,
which leaves more time for drinking wine (woo!) and changing your dress 20 times before your friends arrive.
which leaves more time for drinking wine (woo!) and changing your dress 20 times before your friends arrive.
I have posted the crack cake recipe before,
but it was a long time ago when I didn’t have as many readers, so I thought I should post it again.
but it was a long time ago when I didn’t have as many readers, so I thought I should post it again.
Cheese Ring with Strawberry Preserves
1 cup mayonaise
1 cup chopped yellow onion
2 cups shredded sharp cheddar
1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
Strawberry Preserves
Tollhouse Toppers for serving
Combine all ingredients. Put into bundt pan and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. When ready to serve, flip out onto platter and fill the center with strawberry preserves. Surround the edges with Tollhouse Toppers.
It sounds so simple + random, but it is delicious. There is never a bite left.
My bundt pan was being used for my crack cake, so I broke out a wedding gift : mini bundt pans from crate and barrel. or as they call it, bundtlette pan.
It was so cute. I still prefer the single large ring, I think it looks nicer, but this worked in a jam.
It was so cute. I still prefer the single large ring, I think it looks nicer, but this worked in a jam.
Crack Cake
recipe originally from madaket home
1 box Duncan Hines yellow cake mix
1/4 c brown sugar
1/4 c white sugar
1 box vanilla pudding instant mix
2 teaspoons cinnamon
4 eggs
3/4 c water
3/4 c oil
1/2 c white wine (really any kind, but I always use my go-to pinot grigio)
any cake with my favorite ingredient, booze, works for me 🙂
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix the above ingredients by hand or hand mixer.
Grease a bundt pan.
Pour into pan.
Bake for one hour.
When cake comes out of the oven…
Melt 1 stick butter into 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup wine.
Pour over hot cake. (I poke holes in the cake to help it soak in)
Cool.
Flip out of pan onto plate and serve.
Crack cake is my most requested dessert,
and is the pin on Pinterest that sends the most readers to my blog.
it may not be the prettiest cake and is pretty plain looking, but it is delicious!
yummmmmmm crack cake!
I've been following your blog since you first posted your crack cake recipe. I haven't commented before but I do absolutely love your blog! You are hilarious and write the best posts! As for the crack cake, well, it's become a favorite in our house. Can't wait to try the cheese dip. I'm sure it will be just as delicious. Thank you for providing the most entertaining commentary on all the shows I can't believe I admit watching!
I'm so glad you love the crack cake just as much as we do! I'm making another this weekend! (sorry for the much delayed comment but thanks for reading and glad there are people who listen to my ridiculousness!) have a great weekend!
I made your crack cake yesterday for my husband's birthday and OMG it was the best cake EVER. He totally thinks I'm wife of the year and cannot stop talking about how delicious it is — so THANK YOUUUU!!! It's going to be my new go to! (it's also awesome the next day with coffee for breakfast!)
you are so sweet I'm so glad you liked it!!! 🙂 (and sorry for responding to this weeks later!)
Your Crack Cake sounds very Delish! May I ask why you call it a Crack Cake?? Lolol or am I to assume its becuz its Addicting as Crack?? Lololol �� Also why the white wine? What does that add to the cake? Sorry for All the ? Im new to your site & find it to be a place I will visit often & I Love cooking & baking recipes cuz I Love Both! Thanks for sharing with us ��
I made the Crack Cake yesterday for my family. It is amazing! I jumped the gun and started making it before I realized I ran out of wine. 🙁 So… in the cake recipe, I used water instead and in the glaze recipe, I used milk. I plan to make it again today for our employees. I have just one question…..does your glaze have a little crunch from the granules of sugar or is there a way to melt the sugar? I just wonder if heating the 3 ingredients on the stove to melt the sugar would work?
"i made the mo mo…..crack pie,…to die for,so this is next,my it sure sounds delish…god bless you and your husband to be,i may substitute lemon juice for the wine,as i don`t drink:}"
I'm not sure mine came out right it was VERY moist almost wet consistency….I did not care for it for that reason… I think it would have been ok if it were more cakey?? the only thing I may have done wrong was use a small box of pudding… and my wine was a bubbly????