Buttermilk Breakfast Cake

I'd promised my friend a yummy dessert for our Family Fun Friday dinner. I also promised there would be no redeeming quality about the cake and that it would be chocolate. Unfortunately, I didn't meet the chocolate criteria. BUT - I did find a yummy cake that was very easy to make.

My failure from this came came from the Buttermilk Vanilla Glaze. The pictures from the cookbook have a gorgeous, thick, white glaze. I ended up with a almost clean running syrupy type mess. It was still good, don't get me wrong, it just didn't make the pretty cake from the picture.

Ingredients:

1 18.25 oz package white cake mix

1 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup melted butter

5 large eggs

3 T light brown sugar

2 tsp ground cinnamon

Shortening*

1 T granulated sugar

Preheat oven to 350. Beat first 3 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer 1 1/2 minutes or until thoroughly blended; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

Stir together brown sugar and cinnamon in small bowl.

Grease a 12 cup bundt pan with shortening; sprinkle with 1 T granulated sugar.

Spoon one third of batter into prepared pan; sprinkle brown sugar mixture evenly over batter. Top with remaining batter.

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack, and cool 20 minutes. Drizzle Buttermilk-Vanilla Glaze over slightly warm cake.

* instead of shortening, I used Vegetable Oil Spray.

Buttermilk-Vanilla Glaze

1 cup powdered sugar

1 T melted butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 - 2 T buttermilk

Stir together first 3 ingredients and 1 T buttermilk until smooth, adding additional 1 T buttermilk, if necessary, for desired consistency.

Adapted from Cake Mix Miracles