Bacardi Rum Cake Recipe

[ArkJudy]

I got this recipe from another BB person who picked it up at a Bacardi display in a store. Baked it this weekend for our Arkansas Cruisers Party, and it tasted great!

Cake:
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 18 1/2 oz pkg yellow cake mix*
1 3 3/4 pkg Jello Vanilla Instant Pudding and Pie Filling
4 eggs
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup Wesson Oil
1/2 cup Bacardi dark rum (80 proof)
*If using yellow cake mix with pudding already in the mix: omit instant pudding, use 3 eggs instead of 4, 1/3 cup oil instead of 1/2

Glaze:
1/4 lb butter
1/4 cup water
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup Bacardi dark rum (80 proof)

Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease and flour 10" tube or 12 cup Bundt pan. Sprinkle nuts over the bottom of pan. Mix all cake ingredients together. Pour batter over nuts. Bake one hour. Cool. Invert on serving plate. Prick top. Spoon and brush glaze evenly over top and sides. Allow cake to absorb glaze. Repeat till glaze is used up.

Glaze: Melt butter in saucepan. Stir in water and sugar. Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir in rum.

Optional: Decorate with border of sugar frosting or whipped cream

[Carole and Johnny]

Sounds like something to take to the office and not tell anyone it has the goodies in it!
Could make for a fun workday!

[nushnakka]

I have revised this recipe by using rum for the water in the cake for a total of 1c rum. Upon mixing the batter and after sprinkling the nuts in the pan I take about 2 c of the batter and mix in around 1/2c shredded coconut and lay that on top of the nuts and spread remaining batter over the coconut batter.

Also sometimes I use chocolate cake mix instead of the yellow or even french vanilla, and omit the nuts. Spread half of the batter on the bottom. Spoon some raspberry jam (seedless of course) and top that with the remaining batter. Bake both variations as above recipe called for. Yum!