Island Rum Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Spray bundt pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle in chopped pecans. Set aside.
• Using a blender, pulse peaches until liquid.
• Mix all cake ingredients together including peaches, except raisins. Pour mixture into bundt pan. Add golden raisins, distributing evenly.
• Bake for 1 hour. Test with toothpick. If inserted toothpick comes out clean, your cake is done. Cool for ½ hour.
• Invert on a cakeplate. Remove from pan.
• Poke holes in cake using a fork.
• Pour glaze equally over the cake to distribute.
• For glaze:.
• Melt butter in pan.
• Stir in water and rum.
• Add honey and boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat.
• Add zest of one lime.
• *You may use ground ginger in place of crystallized ginger in the cake mixture, but use ½ amount.

Steps:

• preheat oven to 325
• Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan. Sprinkle chopped pecans evenly on bottom of pan.
• In large bowl, mix cake mix, eggs, pudding, oil and water together. Stir in 1/2 cup rum. Pour batter over nuts in bundt pan and bake on middle rack of oven for 1 hour.
• When cake is done, remove from oven and set on a rack to cool.
• While cake is cooling, prepare glaze: melt butter in saucepan. Add water and sugar. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Allow to cool and stir in rum.
• When cake is cool, invert onto serving plate. Prick top and sides of cake with a toothpick and drizzle glaze evenly over top of cake allowing it to soak in.

Steps:

• Basic Cake Mix: In a large mixing bowl, combine basic cake mix ingredients.
• On low speed combine ingredients until the mix is the consistency of fine gravel, and all particles are about the same size.
• This mix may be contained and stored for up to 3 months in the refrigerator.
• For the Cake:.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Spray a large Bundt pan (12 cup) with nonstick cooking spray.
• Sprinkle the chopped walnuts on the bottom.
• Place Basic Cake Mix, pudding mix, milk, eggs, rum, oil, and vanilla extract in a large bowl and combine on medium speed with electric mixer for 2 to 3 minutes, scrape down the bowl halfway through.
• Batter should be very smooth.
• Pour into Bundt pan.
• Bake for about 55 minutes- until fully golden and tester comes out clean and cake springs back.
• Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack while making the soaking glaze.
• Rum Soaking Glaze:.
• Combine butter, water and sugar in a small saucepan.
• Bring to a boil carefully as mixture boils over very easily.
• Reduce to a simmer and cook until sugar is dissolved and syrup is well combined and a little thicker.
• Remove from the heat and add the rum, mix to combine.
• While cake is still cooling, pour some of the hot syrup on top of the cake, allowing it time to soak in (this may take a few minutes as there will be a lot of syrup) continue to add syrup until all of the syrup is added.
• Allow cake to cool completerly in pan before turning out onto serving platter.
• This cake is delicate, so once it is turned out, it can not be moved around easily.
• Can be eaten when fully cool, but even better the next day!

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 9-inch-diameter springform pan with 3-inch-high sides. Whisk flour and baking powder in medium bowl. Beat butter, sugar, and salt in large bowl until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix 1 cup water and vanilla extract in measuring cup. Fold flour mixture into butter mixture in 3 additions alternately with water mixture in 2 additions. Transfer batter to prepared springform pan.
• Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool completely in pan on rack. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.)
• For sauce:
• Combine first 7 ingredients in heavy medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves, about 3 minutes. Increase heat to medium-high. Boil without stirring until sauce is reduced to 1 1/2 cups, about 5 minutes. Cool slightly. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Let stand at room temperature. Rewarm slightly before continuing.)
• Remove sides from cake pan. Slice cake. Place 1 wedge on each plate. Place scoop of ice cream alongside. Spoon chopped tropical fruit alongside. Drizzle cake with sauce. Sprinkle with chopped pecans and serve.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extract. In a small bowl, combine rum and milk. In a large bowl, whisk flour, pudding mix, cornstarch, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with rum mixture, beating well after each addition., Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pan briefly to prevent sticking; replace in pan. Cool on wire rack., Meanwhile, for syrup, heat butter, water, sugar and salt in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; add rum and extract., Using a small skewer, poke holes in cake. Slowly pour syrup over cake until it's all absorbed. Cover; let stand overnight.