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I mentioned this on a totally unrelated thread and a poster asked if I'd share my recipe which I did via DM. But I thought some of you here might also enjoy it. It's very simple to make, is incredibly delicious and - a big plus - doesn't need to be refrigerated as the rum acts as a great preservative! I use Cruzan rum which is made here in the USVI and I believe is quite widely available on the mainland but you can use whatever suits. I should add though that I've not tried it with a cream rum.
Caribbean Rum Cake (makes 1X 10” bundt pan)
4 cups yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1 box vanilla instant pudding mix
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup water
½ cup rum
Glaze
½ cup salted butter
¼ cup water
1 cup cane sugar
½ cu rum
Preheat oven to 325
Grease and flour bundt pan
Mix together all cake ingredients, pour into bundt pan and bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out dry.
Let cake cool off, then turn out onto a good sized sheet of wax paper.
When cooled off, poke the cake well with a fork, top and sides.
Glaze: Combine all ingredients except for rum in a (preferably) non stick pan and heat to boiling, Turn down heat and let it do a slow simmer boil for 5 minutes. Turn off heat and let cool down. When lukewarm, add the rum, stir well.
A turkey baster works well for the next step of soaking the cake with the glaze. Go slowly and drizzle the glaze over the cake (now you’ll see why the wax paper underneath!) and let it sink into all the holes.
When you're done, fold the drippy wax paper up and over, add more to enclose the cake completely and then either wrap it in foil or put it into a cake tin. De longah she sit de bettah she get! Enjoy!
I forgot to mention that the Cruzan rums come in a variety of wonderful fruit flavors as well as the basic light and dark rums. This year I've concentrated on the coconut and mango. I must confess that part of the delight of cooking them is indulging in sips of the rum during the process ...
The more in advance the better. As I said, it doesn't need to be refrigerated ...
Okay, so I made the cake, made the glaze and the glaze seems quite runny. Similar recipes said one should reduce the glaze until thick or the cake will be too mushy. I followed the recipe as written - did I bugger up the cake with too thin glaze? It is pooling around the cake quite a bit...
Okay, so I made the cake, made the glaze and the glaze seems quite runny. Similar recipes said one should reduce the glaze until thick or the cake will be too mushy. I followed the recipe as written - did I bugger up the cake with too thin glaze? It is pooling around the cake quite a bit...
Very much doubt you buggered it up. If you drizzle the glaze over the cake S L O W L Y and give it time to be absorbed through the holes you won't have a lot of pooling. In this case, just wrap the wax paper over the whole cake, encase the whole in foil and then turn it upside down. Hic! Cheers!
Ok. I baked until 6am and then I got fed up with the turkey baster and dumped the whole she-bang over the cake. I guess that why I have pooling.
ETA: I wasn't baking the cake until 6 in case anyone is wondering how drunk I was - I was stone cold sober and making teeny tiny meat and mushroom turnovers.
Last edited by netwit; 12-20-2013 at 02:44 PM..
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I guess that why I have pooling.
