- I’m sure many people approach this one day of year with the license to over-indulge. Whereas one piece of pie would normally be substantial, on Thanksgiving we push the limits and tend to sample away. I mean, how could I only have one slice of pumpkin pie when my Grandma also made Pecan and Chocolate Pies too?
- For Thanksgiving 2012, I’m test running two of Mom’s recipes found tucked away in her attic just weeks ago- entire folder of yellowed, crumpled sheets of paper overflowed with handwritten recipes from 1970! As luck would have it, many of the recipes would be ideal seasonal dishes for a Thanksgiving table but, having a sweet craving, I selected two to experiment: Bourbon Nut Cake and Pumpkin Pudding.
- Mom’s Bourbon Nut Cake recipe signifies fall.
- Some prominent ingredients are nutmeg, chopped walnuts, and even Bourbon. I also love the fact the batter is so basic – a merger between yellow cake mix and instant pudding mix. The glaze looked especially tasty combining sugar and (more) Bourbon and milk.
- I also used two teaspoonfuls of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! as it’s very easy to scoop, measure and mix with the other ingredients for the glaze. And, it’s all made in a Bundt pan. I almost never bake with a Bundt pan. Most of my baked desserts come fresh from a 9×13” Pyrex dish. A Bundt pan! How exciting.
Ingredients:
Batter:
- 2 cups chopped pecans or walnuts (I used Walnuts)
- 1 box Duncan Hines Yellow Deluxe Cake Mix
- 1 box Jello Instant Vanilla Pudding
- ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 4 large eggs
- ½ cup Bourbon
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup oil
Glaze:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! (I used the light version)
- 1-2 tablespoons milk
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a bundt pan and sprinkle ½ cup of nuts over the bottom, coating the bottom.
- Beat remaining ingredients, except nuts, on medium.
- Turn mixer to high and beat 2 more minutes until thick. Add nuts and mix again.
- Bake about 1 hour until toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes and then invert to cool.
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