Recipe(tried): Easy Amaretto Cake (using cake mix)

Here is the cake recipe from the Southern living clipping.

Easy Amaretto Cake

1 1/2 cups chopped almonds; toasted and divided
1 (18.5-ounce)package yellow cake mix without pudding
1 (3 1/2-ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup Amaretto
1 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/4 cup Amaretto
1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Sprinkle 1 cup almonds into bottom of a well-greased and floured 10" tube pan; set aside. Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, oil, water, Amaretto, and 1 teaspoon almond extract in a mixing bowl; beat on low speed of an electric
mixer until dry ingredients are moistened. Increase speed to medium, and beat 4 minutes. Stir in remaining 1/2 cup almonds.
Pour batter into prepared tube pan. Bake at 325 degrees F. for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool cake in pan 10-15 minutes; remove from pan, and cool completely.
Combine sugar, 1/4 cup water, and butter in a small saucepan; bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to medium, and gently boil 4-5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until sugar
dissolves. Remove from heat, and cool 15 minutes. Stir in 1/4 cup Amaretto and 1/2 teaspoon 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.