Recipe Contest winer by Priscilla Smithson

Ingredients

• 1 C copped pecans/walnuts
• 1 18.25 ox package of yellow cake mix (with jello instant pudding in the mix if possible)
• 4 eggs (for mix)
• 1/2 C cold water (for mix)
• 1/3 C oil (for mix)
• 1/2 C Dark Rum
• 1/2 pound butter
• 1/4 C water
• 1 C sugar

Directions

Cake

1. Heat oven to 350
2. Spray a 10 inch bundt pan with non stick cooking spray. Sprinkle nuts over bottom of pan.
3. Mix cake ingredients according to package, pour batter over nuts.
4. Bake 1 hour
5. Cool 15-20 min on a rack, then invert on serving plate

Glaze

1. Melt the butter in a sauce pan.
2. Stir in water and sugar, boil for 5 min.
3. Remove from heat and stir in rum, let cool.
4. Soon and bush glaze over the top and sides. Repeat until all glaze is used.