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Recipe Mom's Rum Cake (Cake)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
- 1 (3.5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup rum
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup rum
Preparing/Cooking:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Grease and flour one 10 inch tube pan.
- Combine cake mix and pudding mix.
- In another bowl beat eggs, water, oil and rum until frothy.
- Add cake mix/pudding mixture and beat until well mixed.
- Spread pecans evenly over the bottom of the prepared pan and pour batter over pecans.
- Bake cake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out dry when inserted in the center.
- Allow to cool in pan for 5 minutes and remove from pan.
- Place in serving dish immediately, right side up.
- (Pecans should be on the bottom)To Make Glaze: During the last 15 to 20 minutes of baking time, combine butter or margarine, water and sugar in a sauce pan and bring to boil over high heat.
- Reduce heat to medium and boil rapidly until it's very thick and syrupy stirring very frequently.
- The syrup must be reduced quite a bit and very thick otherwise it will make the cake mushy.
- Remove from heat and add rum.
- While cake is still hot, poke holes all over top of cake with a toothpick and spoon glaze over top of cake.
- Allow cake to sit at room temperature for one day then refrigerate.
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