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Prep time
10 minutes
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Cook time
1 hour
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Serves
12
Author Notes
For me, the best edible gift, and maybe a most popular one, is a rum cake. Some make it using a cake mix (it is delicious), and some buy it (example, Tortuga Rum cakes). But here is my from scratch rum cake that all my friends ask me to make over and over. You can make it either in one 12 cup bundt pan (or an angel tube pan), or in two 6 cup bundt pans, or in about 10 mini bundt pans. You can wrap cake(s) with a transparent cellophane gift wrapping paper and tie with a colorful ribbon. The post office has made a lot of money with this cake which I have mailed to various friends within and outside the United States. —Regine
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Ingredients
- Cake
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2 cups
bleached all purpose flour (my favorite is Pillsbury brand)
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4
large eggs
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2 teaspoons
baking powder
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1 1/2 cups
sugar
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1
package (about 3 3/4 oz) Jello Instant vanilla or French Vanilla pudding mix – but I have, by the way, made this cake a few times and with success without the pudding mix because I noticed last minute I did not have any.
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1/2 cup
vegetable oil
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1/2 cup
milk (regular or 2%)
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1/2 cup
water
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1/2 cup
rum (My favorite is Haitian Barbancourt but is is also good with Appleton or Diplomatico)
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3 teaspoons
vanilla extract (equivalent to 1 tbsp)
- Rum Syrup
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1/2 cup
unsalted butter (equivalent to 1 stick, or 4 oz, or 8 tbsp). Use only real butter.
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1/4 cup
water (equivalent to 4 tbsp)
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2/3 cup
rum
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1 cup
sugar
Directions
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Preheat oven to 325°. Spray (I used a Baking Spray) one 12 cup bundt pan, or two 6 cup bundt pans, or about 10 mini bundt pans.
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Warm milk, water, and oil in microwave. Stir pudding into milk mixture until it is dissolved. Stir rum and vanilla, and set aside. In bowl of mixer, add eggs and sugar, and beat on medium speed for 1 minute, then slowly add the milk mixture and beat for another minute. Last, add the flour and baking powder; start stirring by hand so flour does not fly all over and then beat for maybe 40/60 seconds or until batter is very smooth.
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Pour batter into 12 cup bundt pan and bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick/skewer inserted around the middle comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes. Unmold cake, clean pan if it has some cake crumbs (hopefully not) and then place pan on top of cake and flip it over so cake is again inside pan. Use a long skewer to poke 30+ holes all over the cake and then slowly pour the syrup all over the cake’s surface - on top of and around the cake. This will ensure syrup is more uniformly absorbed into cake. Leave cake in pan for about 1 hour or until all syrup is absorbed into cake and the top has dried up a bit. Unmold and serve (even better one day after) or wrap as an edible gift. See pictures. Note: If using 2 6 cup Bundt pans, or 12 mini Bundt pans, you will of course need bake for less time. Start checking at 28 minutes.
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For the Glaze:
Melt butter, sugar, and water in saucepan or, like me, do it in a microwave. Stir occasionally to make sure sugar is totally dissolved (see SybilC’s review). Remove from heat or microwave, and add rum. If using microwave , be careful because the mixture can easily boil and flow all over the microwave.
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