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2. Place a rack in the center of the oven 6. For the glaze, place the confection -
and preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly ers’ sugar in a small bowl and whisk in
mist a 12-cup Bundt pan with vegetable enough milk to make a spoonable mix-
oil spray, then dust with flour. Shake out ture. Whisk in the almond extract.
the excess flour. Set the pan aside.
7. Place the cake on a serving platter and
3. Place the cake mix in the bowl with the spoon the glaze over it. Let the cake rest
reserved egg yolks. Add the whole egg, for 10 minutes before slicing.
water, and oil. Blend with an electric
8. Slice and serve.
mixer on low speed for 30 seconds. Stop
the machine and scrape down the sides of Store this cake, in a cake saver or
the bowl with a rubber spatula. Increase the under a glass dome, at room temperature
mixer speed to medium and beat 2 min- for up to 1 week. Or freeze it, wrapped in
utes more, scraping the sides down again foil, for up to 6 months. Thaw the cake
if needed. The batter should look thick overnight in the refrigerator before serving.
and well combined.

4. Pour half of the batter into the pre-
pared pan. Spoon the macaroon filling in
a ring on top of the batter, making sure it R
does not touch the sides of the pan. Spoon
the Cake Mix Doctor says
the remaining batter over the filling,
smoothing it out with the rubber spatula.
If you want to pull out all the stops,
Place the pan in the oven.
toast a handful of sliced almonds and
5. Bake the cake until it springs back flaked coconut and sprinkle the
when lightly pressed with your finger and mixture on the cake while the glaze is
is just starting to pull away from the sides still sticky.
of the pan, 53 to 57 minutes. Remove the Remember that egg whites will whip
pan from the oven and place it on a wire to a greater volume if they are at room
rack to cool for 20 minutes. Run a long, temperature. So if you have a chance to
sharp knife around the edge of the cake remove the eggs from the refrigerator
and invert it onto a rack to cool com- an hour before baking, do so.
pletely, 20 minutes more.