Easy amaretto cake

Yield: 1 Servings MMM

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c Toasted Almonds;chopped
1 pk Yellow cake mix without
1/2 c Veg. oil
1/2 c Water
1/2 c Amaretto
1 ts Almond extract
1/2 c Sugar
1/4 c Water
2 tb Butter
1/4 c Amaretto
1/2 ts Almond extract -divided -pudding
1 sm Pkg. instant vanilla pudding
4 Eggs

Instructions:

Sprinkle 1 c. almonds into bottom of a well-greased and floured 10" tube pan; set aside. Combine cake mix pudding mix eggs oil water amaretto and almond extract in a mixing bowl; beat on low speed of an electric mixer til dry ingred. are moistened. Increase speed to md and beat 4 min. Stir in remaining 1/2 c. almonds. Pour batter into prepared tube pan. Bake at 325 for 1 hr. or til a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan 10-15 min.; remove from pan and cool completely. Combine sugar 1/4 c. water and butter in a sm. saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to med. and gently boil 4-5 min. stirring occasionally until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and cool 15 min. Stir in 1/4 c. amaretto and 1/2 ts almond extract. Punch holes in top of cake with a wooden pick; slowly spoon glaze on top of cake allowing glaze to absorb in cake. Yield: one 10-inch cake.