Community Pick
Bacardi Rum Cake
photo by Jonathan Melendez
- Ready In:
- 1hr 24mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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10-12
ingredients
- 1 cup chopped pecans or 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 (520 g) package yellow cake mix (You just use the cake mix as is, do not add other ingredients listed on cake box.)
- 1 (92 g) package vanilla instant pudding mix
- 4 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup cold water
- 1⁄2 cup cooking oil
- 1⁄2 cup dark rum or rum
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Glaze
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup dark rum or rum
directions
- Sprinkle nuts over bottom of greased 10 inch tube pan or 12 cup bundt pan.
- Stir together cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, oil and rum.
- Pour batter over nuts.
- Bake at 325 in oven for 1 hour.
- Cool 10 minutes in pan.
- Invert onto serving plate and prick top.
- Glaze-----------------.
- Melt butter in saucepan.
- Stir in water and sugar.
- Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in rum.
- Brush glaze evenly over top and sides of cake.
- Allow cake to absorb glaze.
- Repeat until glaze is used up.
Questions & Replies
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I made this cake. Used to make 10 during the holidays for Xmas gifts. Worked for Bacardi. The cake cooked just perfect but my problem I think is the glaze. I seem to remember the glaze getting thicker but although I boiled it 5 mts. With a timer! It was pretty watery. Isn't it supposed to thicken? To what point? Appreciate your advice!
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Reviews
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I also got this recipe from a magazine many, many years ago (over 20) and have never made a better tasting cake since. I poke holes right down to the center of the cake and pour the glazing into them. The moistness and aroma has never been matched by any other cake. It is absolutely worth the time and expense to make this one! MsLynne
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Tweaks
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I have made this cake for over a decade and have learned a few tweaks. I mix the nuts with about a cup of batter and carefully spread them on the bottoms of the pan, they don't flake off, top it with remaining batter. Instead of drizzle the glaze I pour it in empty pan and put the cake back in to soak it up for about 20 minutes, flip it back out and leave uncovered for a couple of hours, it doesn't get soggy and the sugar kind of crystallizes again. Top it off before serving with a light dusting of powdered sugar.
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This cake has been around for so many years but still very popular. Over time I have made a few changes (to suit our tastes) and now use a French Vanilla cake mix and substitute 1/2 cup melted and unsalted butter for the oil. I do add a few tablespoons of oil just to ensure extra moistness. Any way that it is made alsways a hit.
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