Scandalously Rich Rum Cake Recipes

OLD FASHIONED RUM CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Rum Cake: Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes 1. Put all ingredients in a medium bowl and mix together with a hand mixer for 3 minutes. 2. Pour into a very well greased and floured bundt pan (make sure you get in all the nooks and crannies.) 3. Bake until golden and cooked through until a toothpick is clean. 4. Let cool (slightly warm is good if you plan to poke holes and pour rum sauce over top). 5. Once the cake has cooled turn it over onto a plate or cookie sheet. 6. With a long skewer, poke holes all around the cake and brush butter rum glaze over entire cake. Let sit for about 20 minutes. 7. Place on pretty cake stand or platter when ready to serve and pour remaining rum cake glaze on the top. Rum Cake Glaze: 1. Boil over medium heat until butter and sugar are melted. 2. Remove from heat and add 1/2 cup rum, mix well. 3. Pour slowly and carefully over the cake. 4. Place remaining rum cake sauce in small serving bowl and allow guests to drizzle over their cake slices if they like.

RICH RUM CAKE

Steps:

• Place egg whites in a large bowl; let stand at room temperature 30 minutes. For sauce, in a saucepan, combine confectioners' sugar, juice and 1/4 cup cubed butter; cook and stir over medium-low heat until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat; stir in rum. Reserve 3/4 cup for serving., Preheat oven to 375°. Grease and flour a 10-in. tube pan. Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg together twice; set aside., In a bowl, beat egg whites on medium until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on high after each addition until sugar is dissolved. Continue beating until stiff peaks form., In another bowl, beat egg yolks until slightly thickened. Gradually add 1/4 cup remaining brown sugar and the vanilla, beating on high speed until thick. Fold a fourth of the egg whites into batter. Alternately fold in flour mixture and remaining whites. Fold in melted butter., Transfer to prepared pan. Bake on lowest oven rack 25-30 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched. Immediately poke holes in cake with a fork; slowly pour remaining sauce over cake, allowing sauce to absorb into cake. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Invert onto a serving plate. Serve with reserved sauce and, if desired, whipped cream and glazed pecans.

GOLDEN RUM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan. Sprinkle chopped nuts evenly over the bottom of the pan.
• In a large bowl, combine cake mix and pudding mix. Mix in the eggs, 1/2 cup water, oil and 1/2 cup rum. Blend well. Pour batter over chopped nuts in the pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Let sit for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto serving plate. Brush glaze over top and sides. Allow cake to absorb glaze and repeat until all glaze is used.
• To make the glaze: in a saucepan, combine butter, 1/4 cup water and 1 cup sugar. Bring to a boil over medium heat and continue to boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 cup rum.

EASY RUM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube or Bundt pan. Sprinkle nuts over the bottom of the pan.
• Mix together the cake mix, 1/2 cup dark rum, eggs, 1/2 cup water, oil, and vanilla pudding mix. Pour batter over the nuts in the pan.
• Bake for 1 hour. Cool, and invert cake on a serving plate. Prick the top of the cake.
• To Make The Glaze: Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in 1/8 cup water and the 1/2 cup sugar. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove glaze from heat, and stir in 1/4 cup rum. Drizzle and smooth evenly over the top and sides.

BUTTERED RUM CHRISTMAS CAKE

Steps:

• Start with the fruit. Pour the apple juice into a saucepan and bring to a simmer. Add the butter, let it melt, then take off the heat and add the syrup and rum. Put the mixed fruit and cranberries into a large bowl, pour over the hot rum mix, then cover tightly with cling film and leave overnight.
• The next day, heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease and double-line a 20cm round, deep cake tin with non-stick baking parchment. Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy and pale, then gradually beat in the eggs until light and fluffy. If the mix starts to split or look lumpy, add 1 tbsp of the flour and keep beating. Sift in the flour, spices and ¼ tsp salt, and fold in using a large spoon. Fold in the orange zest, nuts, soaked fruit and soaking liquid.
• Spoon the batter into the tin, level the top, then make a slight dimple in the middle using the back of the spoon. Bake for 1 hr 30 mins, then reduce oven to 140C/120C fan/gas 1 and bake for a further 1 hr 45 mins or until it has risen, is a dark golden colour and a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Put the tin on a cooling rack and leave until warm.
• To feed the cake the first time, use a cocktail stick to poke all over the top of the warm cake. Stir together the rum and maple syrup, then slowly spoon over the cake. Cool completely, then remove the baking parchment, wrap loosely in clean baking parchment and store in an airtight tin. Feed the cake every week to 10 days until you decorate it.
• To cover, ice and decorate your cake, see 'goes well with' for instructions on how to make our Midwinter candle cake, Sparkly bauble cake or Sparkling snowfetti cake.

RUM CAKE (FROM SCRATCH!)

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a bundt pan liberally with cooking spray. Then add a few tablespoons of granulated sugar to the inside of the pan, and gently tap and turn it around until every square inch of the inside of the pan is coated in sugar. (Be especially sure that the inner cone of the bundt pan is coated in sugar so that the cake does not stick.) Set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk together cake flour (*or see substitute below), baking powder, salt, baking soda, and 1 1/2 cups sugar until combined. In a different medium bowl or large measuring cup, whisk together melted butter, buttermilk, rum, oil, vanilla, and yolks until combined. Set aside.
• In clean bowl of a stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, beat egg whites at medium-high speed until foamy, about 30-45 seconds. With whisk still running, add in the remaining 1/4 cup sugar. Continue to beat until stiff peaks just form, about 60-90 more seconds. Transfer the whipped egg whites to a separate bowl and set aside.
• Add the flour mixture to now-empty mixing bowl. Using the whisk attachment again, gradually pour in butter mixture and mix on medium-low speed until it is just combined, about 15 seconds. (Don't overmix!) Stop the mixer and scrape whisk and sides of bowl. Return mixer to medium-low speed and beat until the mixture is smooth and fully incorporated, about 10 to 15 more seconds. Fold about 1/3 of the whipped egg whites into batter until just combined, then add the remaining whites and gently fold in until no streaks remain.
• Pour the batter evenly into the sugared bundt pan. Bake for 40-50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. (Don't overbake!) Transfer the cake to a cooling rack and let it cool for at least 15 minutes. (While the cake cools - or even better, while it's in the oven - make the butter-rum sauce. Instructions below.)
• Once the cake is slightly cool, use a toothpick or skewer to poke lots of holes all over the surface of the cake (while it is still in the pan.) Pour about half of the butter rum sauce over the surface of the cake. Let it rest for 5-10 minutes until the sauce is absorbed. Then carefully invert the cake onto a serving platter or pedestal, and drizzle the remaining sauce evenly on top of the cake.
• Serve immediately, or cover until ready to serve.
• How To Make The Butter-Rum Sauce:
• In a medium saucepan, whisk together sugar, butter and water until combined. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, and continue to boil for 5 minutes or until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and gradually stir in rum (carefully, as the rum will make the sauce boil up again).

SCANDALOUSLY RICH RUM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 10 inch bundt pan. Sprinkle the nuts inside the pan, trying to coat the sides as much as possible. In a medium bowl, using an electic mixer, combine the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, oil, and rum. Mix until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl. Pour into pan and smooth top. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Cool 30 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare glaze: In a medium saucepan melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the sugar and water and bring to a boil. Cook for 5 minutes: then remove from heat and stir in rum. Place the cake upside down in a serving plate. Pierce it all over with a toothpick. drizzel 1/3 of the glaze over the cake. Turn the cake over and brush the remaining glaze over the top. Cool completely.

EASY RUM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
• To prepare the pan, grease and flour a 10" bundt cake pan. Sprinkle the chopped walnuts in the prepared pan.
• Combine the cake mix, pudding mix, rum, water and oil. Beat well.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating between each addition.
• Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan.
• Bake for 60 minutes.
• While the cake is baking, prepare the glaze. In a saucepan over medium low heat, mix together the sugar, water and butter. Bring this to a low boil and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in the rum. (If you'd like to cook the rum, you can! That will remove a very slight amount of the alcohol.)
• Prick the top of the cake with a fork and while the cake is still in the pan, pour the glaze over the cake. Give it at least 30 minutes to sink into the cake.
• Turn the cake out onto a plate to cool completely.
• This cake is best when it has time to sit. Store it in an airtight container and serve it the next day.

CHOCOLATE RUM CAKE FROM SCRATCH

Steps:

• To make the cake: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Cover a Bundt pan with non-stick baking spray. Whisk together flour and baking soda; set aside. In a large saucepan, over medium heat, add the butter and ginger beer and stir until butter is melted. Remove pan from the heat. Add the unsweetened cocoa and sugar and stir to combine. Pour in the rum and stir to combine. Add the buttermilk, eggs and vanilla and stir to combine, Add the flour mixture and stir until no flour streaks remain. Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan and bake until cake tester inserted in the thickest part of the cake is free of wet batter (a few crumbs will be visible), about 45 to 50 minutes. In the meantime, make the glaze. To make the glaze: In a small saucepan, over medium high heat, combine the butter, sugar, rum and water. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil. Lower heat and let simmer for 5 minutes, then remove from heat. Once the cake is done, transfer the Bundt pan to a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Invert pan and turn out the cake out onto serving plate. Use a skewer and poke holes all over the cake and brush the cake all over with the glaze. Serve warm. Cover cake with plastic wrap and store at room temperature for up to two days, if any leftovers remain.