Toss in some Rosemary and Garlic and make a tonguegasmic meal
Sock It To Me (Cake)
12:05 AM Filed UnderDesserts, Mouthwatering Monday
This beautiful, buttery, cinnamon and brown sugar filled Southern Classic – Sock It To Me Cake – is Nathan’s favorite cake.
It is the one he requests for every birthday.
This year, Monkey and Princess helped me make Nathan’s birthday cake.
I love passing family recipes on to my kids, watching their eyes take in the tattered and stained recipe cards, the smells the same ones that I remember from my own childhood.
With this cake, we even had a milestone reached.
Monkey finally mastered cracking eggs into the bowl without getting eggshells in the bowl!!!
Look! Even the eggs were happy!
This cake is so simple to make – it starts with a boxed cake mix – as so many delicious Southern recipes do 
and the rich buttery flavor is enhanced by cinnamon, brown sugar, walnuts and even sour cream. Y’all should have seen Princess’ face when I told her there was sour cream in this cake
Oh.. Wait..
Here it is -
After the gifts were presented and a few tears shed by a very touched and proud Daddy, the cake was served and declared the best one yet – which is saying A LOT – as I’ve been making this cake for Nathan for over 13 years.
I hope y’all try out this southern and family favorite recipe!
Ingredients
- 1 package Butter Cake mix
- 1/2 C granulated white sugar
- 3/4 C vegetable oil (or applesauce)
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 pint or (1 C) of Sour Cream
- 1 C chopped walnuts
- 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 5 tsp brown sugar
Filling
Instructions
- Pre-heat Oven to 350° F
- Spray your favorite bundt cake pan with baking spray and set it aside
- In a large mixing bowl, mix eggs, sugar and oil until combined.
- Add in cake mix and beat until combined
- Add in nuts, vanilla and sour cream - beat well.
- Pour 1/2 of the cake mix into the bundt cake pan
- Mix the cinnamon and brown sugar together and spread it all over the batter in the bundt cake pan
- Pour the rest of the batter on top of that
- Place it in the oven and bake for 45 minutes - check the cake by inserting a raw spaghetti noodle to check for doneness. If the cake is done, the spaghetti stick will come out with just a few crumbs on it.
- Once the cake is done, allow it to cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then move it to a wire cooling rack or serve immediately.
Topping Time
Rachel Says
This cake needs no glaze. It is delicious warm or cold and for breakfast, dinner or as a dessert.
A few favorites from last week’s linky
- Chickpea Salad with Grilled Pita Bread
- Cinnamon Raisin Oatcakes
- Tamale Cups
- Fried Green Beans
- Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms
Thank y’all for linking up your amazing recipes every week. I love seeing what y’all are serving your friends and families! You often inspire my own table and definitely leave me hungry!
Don’t forget to visit and comment on a few other participants, link back to A Southern Fairytale and Mouthwatering Mondays in your recipe post and leave a comment after you link up, I love hearing from y’all!
Happy Monday!
Birthdays, Stories and Love
We are storytellers by nature.
Whether that’s because we’re southern, or just simply human – in my family, stories fill our days and nights. Some of our stories are funny, some are sad, some are serious and some (if told by Monkey) are highly embellished and exaggerated.
Stories are a way of keeping people alive in our hearts.
Stories are a way of preserving memories, passing along history and a way of bringing us closer together.
I encourage my kids to share their stories, to write them down, to draw them, record them, to save them…
My children spend hours lost in paper and crayons – putting their stories down on paper and presenting them to us like the priceless treasures they are
This year, for Nathan’s birthday – my kids wanted to do something special for him. Using their individual gifts – they wanted to create books that could travel with him, go to work with him and remind him every time he saw them of how much they love him.
Princess is an amazing artist and storyteller, so she grabbed her art supplies and made Nathan a book.
Monkey’s gift? He’s a natural born storyteller – he is animated and funny and has a gift for words, as everyone whose ever been around him for more than 10 minutes can tell you . At 5, he’s not quite able to write as well as Princess and he didn’t want to just draw Daddy a book. I assured him that we’d come up with some way to use his gift to make Daddy the best present ever.
Last week, while at HEB, I found it – A Hallmark Recordable Storybook. The moment I saw it, I knew it was what Monkey had to give Nathan.
As soon as Monkey saw it, he agreed immediately and ran to his room to read it:
How did we know it was meant to be? Take a look at the pictures of this Dad and Me storybook.
I had to share this video with y’all. Last night after Monkey fell asleep, I pried the book out of his hands and recorded a few pages out of the book. I love his voice, his imagination, the way he sees his Dad.
I love that my kids wanted to give Nathan memories this year. I love that stories, memories and heart are so important to my kids.
Happy Birthday to the love of my life. I can’t wait to share these with you, to watch their eyes light up as they tell you about each of their gifts and how they created them just for you.
Here’s to the memories and a million more stories.
Happy Birthday. I love you.
This post was written as a part of my work with Hallmark and their “Life Is a Special Occasion” campaign. This is not a paid review of the Hallmark Recordable Storybook – I bought that all on my own. The opinions, photographs, ideas and children are 100% mine.
