Blackberry Wine Cake

Yield

6

Blackberry Wine Cake

Ingredients

1 cup chopped pecans, divided

1 box (2-layer size) Duncan Hines butter flavored cake mix

1 6-ounce package instant vanilla pudding mix

4 eggs

1 cup blackberry wine, divided

1/2 cup oil

1/2 water

Instructions

Do not preheat oven. Grease a tube pan. Pour 1/2 cup of the pecans in the bottom of the pan.

Mix together cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, 1/2 cup blackberry wine, oil, and water. Pour the cake batter over pecans in pan. Top with the remaining 1/2 cup pecans.

Place in cold oven. Turn on oven and set temperature to 300 degrees. Bake for one hour.

Topping:

Ingredients

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 stick (1/4 cup) margarine (not butter)

Instructions

Place sugar, the remaining 1/2 cup blackberry wine, and margarine in a saucepan. Cook on stove for 5 minutes. Pour topping over hot cake and let the cake stand for one hour.