A Short & Sweet Cinnamon Secret

     With rain falling and the nearest pillow calling, this will be brief.  It's Christmas week and the time for gift giving - and while we can't go all Oprah and yell, 'You get a car, and you get a car, and...', we can offer you some heavily guarded recipes for our favorite holiday sweets.  Read on.

The first recipe of the week (yes, there may be more to follow) is for the biggest seller from The Frosted Bowl, the Cinnamon Bundt Cake.  We sold thousands of these during our short stint on 41st street, and folks have been asking for the recipe.  Mom actually found it in a newspaper back in the 1970's, and she's been making them ever since.  For someone who was so keen on us sharing as children, she certainly hasn't been that interested in handing out the recipe.  But here you go.

Cinnamon Bundt Cake

Mix in a large bowl:

1 yellow cake mix (We like Duncan Hines)

1 small instant vanilla pudding

¾ cup cooking oil

¾ cup water

4 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp butter flavoring

¼ cup chopped pecans (optional)

Beat eight minutes at high speed w/ electric mixer.  (We never go more than about 4-5 minutes.) 

Mix together for filling:

½ cup sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

¼ cup chopped pecans

Put a layer of cake batter into a greased fluted tube pan then sprinkle on ¼ of the cinnamon mixture.  Repeat with cake mixture and cinnamon until all is used.  Bake at 350 degrees for 50 – 60 minutes or until done. 

When the cakes are cool, glaze with a mixture of:

1 cup powdered sugar

½ tsp vanilla flavoring

½ tsp butter flavoring

Enough water to make glaze dribble down the cake

A few notes:

1.  When using miniature fluted tube pans, reduce the cooking time to 15 minutes.  Do not bother layering the mixture for the smaller pans… just mix it all together.

2.  At the shop we didn't add the pecans.

3.  You'll likely need to double or triple the glaze recipe.  Or more.  We like it.

4.  We're partial to the Nordic Ware brand of pans, and I believe Walmart has some that are appropriate for the home baker.

When you're finished they should look something like this:

Sometimes if you're really lucky and if you're friends are cool and like cinnamon bundt cakes enough, they'll pose for goofy pics to get them.

 Pookie and her birthday cakes.

Finally this post wouldn't be complete without a song, so we leave you with one of our new favorite Christmas tunes that a new friend introduced us to.  It's good.  Until next time...