Delicious Reading: Duncan Hines' White Wine Cake

A couple years ago, people started posting recipes on Facebook. At first, some social media users complained that these people needed to keep their recipe sharing on Pinterest, which was designed for that purpose. But resistance was futile, especially when fast-paced how-to videos began accompanying the recipes. With all the negativity posted on Facebook during the presidential election, I think we are welcoming anything benign, like these recipes, right along with “LOL cat” videos.

My mom loves to try recipes she sees on Facebook and they almost always turn out well. Recently she told me she had made “crack cake.” Whether you think that is alarming or hilarious, I was pretty sure it wasn’t the original name for the recipe. A little research turned up a Duncan Hines version. The addictive ingredient is the same as in the recipe my mom found: not crack, but white wine!

This is a pound-like cake with fall flavors and a sweet glaze. If you like to have an offering for folks who don’t care for pie at Thanksgiving (yes, I married my husband despite the fact that he, incredibly, doesn’t like pumpkin pie!) this could be perfect. Maybe this “crack cake” will even go “viral.”

Duncan Hines’ White Wine Cake

For the cake:

1 box of Duncan Hines yellow cake mix

1 small box of instant vanilla pudding

3/4 cup water

3/4 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup white wine

4 eggs

1/4 cup light brown sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/4 cup chopped pecans

For the glaze:

1 stick margarine

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup water

1/4 cup white wine (set aside)

Cake instructions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray tube pan with nonstick cooking spray. Mix cake ingredients well, leaving out the pecans. Put pecans on the bottom of the tube pan. Pour in cake batter. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Glaze instructions:

Bring all ingredients to a boil for 2 or 3 minutes. Take pan off heat and add 1/4 cup white wine that was set aside. Set completed glaze aside until cake is done baking. Spoon 3/4 of glaze mixture on cake while still in the pan. Let set for 10 minutes. Put cake in a dish of your choosing. Pour remaining glaze on top of cake.

About Brooke

Brooke Clubbs is a Jackson mom of three, a freelance writer and a communications instructor.