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Rum Cake

A simple and delicious rum cake! It needs no other description
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 10 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Rum deliciousness
Servings: 8 servings
Author: Rex

Ingredients

Cake Ingredients

  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 package yellow cake mix 18.25 oz
  • 1 package instant vanilla pudding 3.4 ounce
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup rum use whatever you have. My neighbor recommends the cheapest stuff you have

Glaze

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 tbs rum see rum note above

Hardware

  • 1 Bundt Pan 10 inch
  • Cooking spray with flour

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Grease a 10 inch Bundt pan with flour cooking spray or use butter and then flour.
  • Sprinkle chopped nuts evenly over the bottom of the pan.
  • In a large bowl mix together the yellow cake mix and pudding mix. Then add the eggs, water, oil and rum. Whisk together well.
  • Once combined, pour the batter into the bundt pan covering the chopped nuts.
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a skewer or toothpick comes out clean from the center.
  • Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
  • Once cooled turn out onto a cake plate.
  • While the cake is cooling make the glaze. Combine the butter, water and sugar in a 1 quart sauce pan. Bring to a boil and cook for 5-7 minutes or until the sugar is fully dissolved. Remove form the heat and allow to cool for 5 minutes. Then stir in the remaining 2 tablespoons of rum.
  • Using a pastry brush, brush the glaze lightly over the cake. That way you will not disturb the crushed nuts. Repeat the glazing step until all of the glaze is used.
  • Allow the cake to absorb the glaze before eating.