Christmas Rum Cake
 
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Making a rum cake is a fun holiday tradition but rum soaked cake is delicious year round! I’ll show you how easy it is to make a Bacardi rum cake and a rum cake glaze. It will be a fast family favorite.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 12
Ingredients
Cake:
  • 1 cup pecans, chopped plus additional nuts for garnish if desired
  • 1 box (15.25 oz) yellow cake mix
  • 1 box (3.4 oz) instant vanilla pudding mix
  • 4 large eggs, room temperature
  • ½ cup water
  • ½ cup canola oil
  • ½ cup dark rum (or light rum)
Glaze:
  • ¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) butter
  • 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup water
  • ¾ cup dark rum (or light rum is fine)
Instructions
Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2. Coat bundt pan with non-stick cooking spray and a dusting of flour
  3. Sprinkle pecans into pan
  4. In a large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, pudding, eggs, water, oil, and rum until smooth
  5. Pour over nuts in pan, spread evenly
  6. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean
  7. Cool in pan 15 minutes
  8. Invert onto serving platter
Glaze:
  1. In a small saucepan, mix together sugar, butter and water
  2. Bring to boil over medium heat, stirring constantly, boil for 1 minute
  3. Remove from heat, stir in rum
  4. Pierce cake with fork
  5. Spoon glaze over warm cake
  6. Sprinkle with pecans if desired
Recipe by Wishes and Dishes at https://wishesndishes.com/christmas-rum-cake/