This Crack Cake recipe is easy and delicious. A yellow cake mix is doctored up, baked to golden brown perfection, and topped with a luscious wine glaze.
What Is a Crack Cake?
It is a cake that is addicting like Crack supposedly is! I wouldn’t know about the real Crack but this cake I can vouch for is addicting.
It starts with a box of yellow cake mix that has a few add-ins to create an extra delicious cake, then once the cake is baked it’s poked all over for a wine-sugar-butter glaze. Wow. Cold, room temperature, or warm this cake is a winner.
What are the ingredients for a Crack Cake?
You only need a few things
- Yellow Cake Mix, make sure it’s a 15.25oz size box
- Instant Vanilla Pudding, make sure it’s a 3.4oz size box
- Ground Cinnamon
- Brown Sugar
- Granulated Sugar- for both the cake and the glaze
- Large Eggs, at room temperature
- Vegetable Oil
- Water
- Pure Vanilla Extract- for both the cake and the glaze
- White Wine- for both the cake and the glaze
- Butter
How do you make Crack Cake?
So basically this is a doctored up cake mix, hello so easy and quick! Another doctored cake mix recipe I love is my Salted Caramel Red Velvet Cupcakes.
Let’s start by preheating the oven. If your oven is not to the correct temperature the cake may not turn out properly, so ensure you let the oven fully preheat.
Set the oven temperature to 350F/180C and grease a 10-cup Bundt Pan, set the baking pan aside.
Now the very hard part ?
In a large bowl or in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment mix together all cake ingredients until smooth.
See? That was so time-consuming and difficult. LOL
Pour the cake batter into the prepared bundt pan and bake for 40-50 minutes, or until when you insert a toothpick in the center of the cake it comes out with no wet batter.
Place the cake on a wire rack to cool.
Immediately after the cake is done cooking in a small pot combine all of the glaze ingredients and cook over medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
Use a skewer or thin metal piece to poke holes all over the top bundt cake that is still in the pan.
Evenly pour the glaze on top of the cake and let the cake cool for 1 hour before inverting on to a serving plate.
How long does Crack Cake last?
This crack cake recipe will last 3-4 days. If you live in a warm climate as I do here in California I would suggest storing the cake in the fridge. Otherwise, mold may very well start growing on the cake quickly. The moisture in the cake and a warm environment is not a good combination!
Can you swap out the cake mix flavor?
Totally, I cannot wait to make a chocolate version!
The alcohol in the wine is cooked out so you can serve it to anyone! ?
Ingredients
Cake
- 15.25oz Yellow Cake Mix
- 1 Small Box Instant Vanilla Pudding
- 2 Teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
- 50 Grams (¼ Cup) Brown Sugar
- 50 Grams (¼ Cup) Granulated Sugar
- 4 Large Eggs, at room temperature
- 6oz (¾ Cup) Vegetable Oil
- 6oz (¾ Cup) Water
- 2 Teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
- 40z (½ Cup) White Wine
Glaze
- 4oz (½ Cup) Salted Butter
- 200 Grams (1 Cup) Granulated Sugar
- 2oz (¼ Cup) White Wine
- 1 Tablespoon Pure Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C and grease a 10-cup Bundt Pan, set aside.
- In a large bowl or in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment mix together all cake ingredients until smooth. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 40-50 minutes, or until when you insert a toothpick in the center of the cake it comes out with no wet batter. Place cake on a wire rack to cool.
Glaze
- Immediatley after cake is done in a small pot combine all glaze ingredients and cook over meidum heat for 3-4 minutes. Use a skewer or thin metal piece to poke holes all over the cake. Pour the glaze on top and let cake chill for 1 hour.
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