Eggnog Rum Cake

Submitted by Lavender Lynn

"This recipe came from Pat Dyer. She made this for Christmas office parties."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 45mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1⁄2 cup almonds, whole
• 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup candied cherry
• 18 1⁄4 ounces yellow cake mix
• 1 1⁄2 cups eggnog
• 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 eggs
• 1⁄4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, melted
• 2 tablespoons rum or 1/4 teaspoon rum flavoring

directions

1. Generously grease a bundt pan or 10" tube pan with soft margarine or butter.
2. Press whole almonds and candied cherries against buttered sides and bottom, making a pretty pattern or design on pan.
3. Dust lightly with flour. Set pan aside.
4. In a large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, nutmeg, eggs, eggnog, melted butter and rum.
5. Beat until smooth, about 4 minutes with an electric mixer on medium speed.
6. Pour batter into decorated pan.
7. Bake in preheated oven @ 350°F for 45- 55 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.
8. Let cool in pan 10 minutes. Invert on rack and cool thoroughly.

Reviews

[Annacia]

Another night of insomnia so I started this at 5 am this morning,lol. My eggnog has been used up and I have a sense of accomplishment as well as a desire to go back to bed. I skipped the nuts as this is for DH (I've yet to find a sugar free cake mix in Canada) and he hates nuts. For the cherries I alternated red and green as a last homage to Christmas past. The cake looks lovely and came out of the pan beautifully. DH had a slice with coffee a bit ago and put up a hand with 5 fingers extended with his mouth full (it's now 10am). Thanks Lynn for keeping DH's mouth closed and happy for awhile.

 

[Cindi-Marie-Bauer]

This is a good, moist, cake. Both my husband and I liked it. When adding the cherries, I used exactly 16 of them to line the inside of the pan. Also, I did not add the almonds, as I didn't have them. I don't think this cake necessarily needs the cherries nor the almonds. I think it would taste great w/o them. I found the cake was more than done baking after 40 minutes. Thank you Lynn for posting this recipe!

 

[CookingONTheSide]

This is a very pretty and tasty cake. The flavor is very good. I still taste more rum in it than eggnog. Mine was done baking in 40 minutes. I was surprised that it was not as moist as other rum cakes I have tried. But everyone enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing.