Libby's White Wine Cake

Name: Libby's White Wine Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 1 cake, 8-10 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 (18 ounce) box yellow cake mix (not pudding in the mix); 1 (3 ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix; 3/4 cup water; 3/4 cup cooking oil; 4 eggs; 1/4 cup granulated sugar; 1/4 cup brown sugar; 2 teaspoons cinnamon; 1/2 cup white wine (Chardonnay); 1/2 toasted chopped pecans or 1/2 walnuts; 6 tablespoons butter; 6 tablespoons sugar; 2 tablespoons water; 1/4 cup white wine

Submitted by Cooking CF

"Easy cake from a box mix. Always gets rave reviews."

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Ready In:: 1hr 15mins
Ingredients:: 14
Yields:: 1 cake
Serves:: 8-10

ingredients

1 (18 ounce) box yellow cake mix (not pudding in the mix)
1 (3 ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix
³⁄₄ cup water
³⁄₄ cup cooking oil
4 eggs
¹⁄₄ cup granulated sugar
¹⁄₄ cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
¹⁄₂ cup white wine (Chardonnay)
¹⁄₂ toasted chopped pecans or 1/2 walnuts
Glaze ingredients
6 tablespoons butter
6 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons water
¹⁄₄ cup white wine

directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Put all cake ingredients except nuts in bowl of electric mixer. Mix well on med.low for 4-5 minutes. Spray Bundt tube type pan with non-stick spray. Put nuts in pan. Pour in batter and bake 1 hour at 325 degrees. Make glaze while cake is baking. When done remove from oven and pour 1/2 of glaze over cake while still in the pan and let stand for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan. Let cool and brush remaining glaze over cake until all is absorbed.
For glaze: Boil butter, sugar and water together for 3 minutes in a small saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat and stir in wine. Let cool before putting on cake.

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Reviews

Easy to make & received raves. I didn’t add nuts this time but will next time I make the cake.

Suellin M.
Very moist and easy to prepare cake. I used White Zinfandel which was fine, but I may experiment with different wines next time. Will make again. Thank you!

manrat
This is a favorite of mine. I've made it a bunch of times for our family and for parties. People always rave about this dessert. I've for the most part followed the recipe, but have on occassion added a little more wine to my glaze. You can't go wrong with this cake.

MaiLeigh
I have made this recipe now several times and it is a HUGE HIT! Everyone always wants the recipe. It has a nice spice flavor that goes well around the holidays and it is very moist. I loved having it for breakfast with my coffee...the wine glaze is the most irresistable part!! It was even a favorite at a dessert exchange I took it to. I have always followed the recipe as indicated except for one time when I did not have any pecans. It is better with the 1/2 cup nuts.

JandEandMandM