Delicious Rum Cake

While in the Keys, we sampled some rum cake. Delicious! Luckily, I found a cookbook with some famous Key West Recipes in it and here was the Rum Cake recipe.

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Serves: 10-12

Ingredients

• Cake

• 1  box  yellow cake mix or 1  box  butter pecan cake mix
• 1 (3 1/2ounce) package instant vanilla pudding
• 4  eggs
• 1⁄2 cup  vegetable oil
• 1⁄2 cup rum
• 1⁄2 cup water
• 1⁄2 cup  chopped walnuts or 1⁄2 cup pecans

• Sauce

• 1⁄4 cup water
• 1⁄4 cup rum
• 1⁄2 cup margarine
• 1  cup sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
2. Grease a tube pan or bundt pan.
3. Mix all ingredients for cake together except nuts.
4. Place nuts in bottom of pan and pour batter on top.
5. Bake 50-55 minutes.
6. To make sauce: Combine all sauce ingredients together in a sauce pan.
7. Heat until boiling and allow to boil for 2-3 minutes.
8. Pour over cake when cake is done and allow to stand for 30 minutes before serving.
9. Place cake on serving platter.