Easy Pistachio Pudding Cake
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 12 slices
Ingredients
  • 1 box yellow or white cake mix
  • 1 box instant pistachio pudding mix
  • ½ cup water
  • ½ cup orange juice
  • ½ cup oil
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ cup chopped pistachio nuts
  • ¾ cup chocolate syrup (I used Hershey's)
  • ½ cup chopped pistachio nuts for garnish
Glaze
  • 2½ cups powdered sugar
  • 3 Tbsp. butter, melted
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 1 tsp. of your favorite extract (orange was used for this recipe)
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Shell pistachio nuts (or purchase shelled nuts) place in a plastic bag and crush with a mallet until small
  3. Put cake mix, pudding mix, water, orange juice, oil, eggs and nuts in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer for two minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl periodically.
  4. Grease and flour a 10" tube pan.
  5. Pour ¾ of the batter into tube pan and spread
  6. Add chocolate syrup to remaining batter in mixing bowl and blend.
  7. Pour remaining batter on top of batter in pan and spread
  8. Bake for 1 hour or until a knife inserted into middle of the cake comes out clean
  9. Allow to cool thoroughly before removing from pan
  10. Once cake is cooled and removed from the pan, prepare glaze by putting all glaze ingredients in a bowl and then whip with a wire whisk until combined.
  11. Drizzle glaze over cake and allow glaze to set for 20 minutes before slicing and serving.
Recipe by The Spice Kit Recipes at https://www.thespicekitrecipes.com/easy-pistachio-pudding-cake/