Homemade Sock It To Me Cake

What's up foodies? Y'all doing good? You good? You good? I'm Good! You Good? Okay good. Today, I am sharing my recipe for homemade sock it to me cake. Now, I'm not sure why it's called sock it to me, but what I do know is that it is very good.

I remember eat these all the time when I was younger and up until about four months ago, I haven't had one in a very long time. I was in Walmart in the bakery section and I saw a sock it to me cake. Long story short I bought it and became addicted. I realized that as soon as I finished one, I was buying another one. So I decided to make my own version of it.

So, a few weeks ago, I started developing the recipe. After making it three times, I finally got the recipe just how I like it, I gave some to my sister (who was also addicted to the Walmart brand) she said she loved it and that it tasted just like the ones from Walmart. Now, I will be honest and say that mine doesn't taste just like theirs, but it is just as good.

Recipe

Cake: 

- 12 tbsp butter, softened 

- 3 cups sugar

- 1/3 cup vegetable oil

- 4 eggs

- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

- 2 tsp. vanilla

- 1/2 tsp. baking powder

- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk

- 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

- 1 (3.4 ounce) pack vanilla pudding (or french vanilla)

- 1/2 tsp. salt

Filling

-3 tbsp. brown sugar

- 1 tsp. cinnamon

- 1/2 cup choped pecans

Glaze:

- 2 cups powdered sugar

- 3 tbsp. butter, softened 

- 4 to 7 tbsp. milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a bowl beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating until egg is combined. Add vegetable oil and vanilla extract and mix. In another bowl, mix the flour, salt, cinnamon, and pudding together. Add in one-third of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix. Add in half the buttermilk and mix. Repeat steps until flour and buttermilk are mixed in. In a small bowl, mix the brown sugar, cinnamon and pecans together. Place half the cake batter into a prepared tube pan. Sprinkle the top with the filling mixture. Add the remaining cake batter and smooth out. Bake in preheated oven for 55 minutes to 1 hour. When cake comes out of the oven, let it sit in the pan 15 to 20 minutes, then remove cake from pan and continue cooling for about an hour. Mix the powered sugar and butter together. Add milk just until the glaze is thick, but still runny. Spread glaze over cooled cake.