Sunday, September 18, 2011

Butterscotch Cake

There is just so much I can say about this cake.  I joke this cake is a 'secret family recipe'.  The smell of this cake permeates my memories of growing up.  This may just be the only food item my father knows how to use an oven for, although the recipe is from my mother's side of the family.  When I was in 1st grade and we had to demonstrate how to do something to the class, and I taught them how to make this cake.  My brother and sister can also make this cake and have made this cake.  Wars have been started and ended over this cake.  What else can I say? Make it, you're gonna love it!

Ingredients
-2 cups milk
-1 box 'Cook & Serve' butterscotch pudding mix (NOT instant)
-1 box yellow (vanilla) cake mix
-1 bag butterscotch chips (go for the more expensive ones)

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.  Grease a 13x9 inch pan with non-stick cooking spray or a little oil.
Step 2:  Mix the milk and pudding mix into a medium saucepan and cook over medium heat until thick and bubbly, stirring constantly (basically, follow the directions on the pudding box).
Step 3: Remove the pudding from burner, and stir in the cake mix.  It will be lumpy, don't worry though this doesn't matter.
Step 4: Pour this mixture into the 13x9 inch pan.  You may have to spread it out a little with a spoon because it will be thick
Step 5: Sprinkle the butterscotch chips over the top of the cake and put it in the preheated oven.
Step 6: Bake approximately 25-30 minutes, until the top is all melty and starting to turn a golden-brown

*I would just like to point out that this recipe has no eggs in it, so you don't have to worry about eating the batter!! woohoo!!
**If you're like me and never have milk ( you definitely need cows milk for this), I just made it the other day using powdered milk and you couldn't tell the difference!

2 comments:

  1. do you also have a butterscotch cookie recipe? is it much different then this? is it the same? MORE BUTTERCOTCH!

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  2. I made this for a Halloween party I went to on Saturday- unfortunately I had to have a friend bring the Butterscotch pudding from the states and she forgot about me telling her that it couldn't be instant... but it still turned out delicious (I had to bake it for a full hour) and ridiculously easy. I got tons of compliments- thanks for sharing, Amy!! :)

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