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Butter Rum Cake

by Vino Luci Style

I love this cake and although not necessarily considered a holiday cake, it is considered OUR holiday cake! I made it for a New Year’s Eve party I hosted last week. I promised dessert and this is a quick and easy dessert with fabulous results! I admit I envisioned a great picture of the cake mostly because I was making it in my beautiful new bundt pan. And it was pretty, very pretty. –>> Very tall and pointy…so different from the results in my standard pan; thank you Costco! One reason it’s so easy, it uses a box mix. I know, I know…seems sacrilegious and not wanting to be a food blogging sinner, I thought I would search for an alternative for the recipe I have used for THIRTY years but all I found were a million versions of my old standby…so decided to go for it.

Rum Cake Bunddt PanEspecially when you have a party starting at 8pm and you have not made the promised dessert by 7:30pm, really, what’s wrong with a shortcut? That also explains why I just have a photo of one measly slice. It came out of the oven at 8:45, sat for a few minutes and by the time I turned it out onto a cake plate, people were ready to dig in. The smell of cake, butter and rum wafting through the house had stirred up those taste buds and there was going to be no photos taken this night, nope! I was lucky to be able to squirrel away one slice, which, yes, I actually had to hide from guests!

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Rum Butter Cake

Ingredients Cake

  • 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
  • 1 box yellow cake mix
  • 1 small package vanilla instant pudding milk
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/2 cup rum
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Rum Glaze

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup rum

Directions Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
  2. Spray a large Bundt pan (12 cup) with nonstick cooking spray
  3. Sprinkle the chopped walnuts on the bottom.
  4. Combine 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 until very smooth
  5. Pour into Bundt pan
  6. Bake for about 55 minutes- until fully golden and tester comes out clean and cake springs back
  7. Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack while making the rum glaze; do not remove from the bundt pan

Rum Glaze:

  1. Combine butter, water and sugar in a small saucepan
  2. Bring to a boil; reduce to a simmer and cook until sugar is dissolved and syrup is well combined and a little thicker
  3. Remove from the heat and add the rum, mix to combine
  4. Poke holes all over bottom of cake with wooden spoon
  5. Pour rum/butter syrup evenly all over bottom of cake
  6. Allow cake to cool 10 minutes in pan before turning out onto serving platter

This cake seems to improve with age…if there is any leftover!

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1 Jamie January 9, 2010 at 3:35 pm

This recipe sounds fantastic! I love that bundt pan! So glad you posted this!

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Vino Luci Style Reply:

I love it too! Makes a beautiful looking cake, very tall and statuesque.

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2 Kristen January 9, 2010 at 3:40 pm

Looks so moist and delicious! I got a new bundt pan when I moved, may need to break it out for the first time to try this recipe.

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Vino Luci Style Reply:

Imagine a moist cake infused with a butter/rum/sugar syrup…worth breaking it out certainly!

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3 chefrenee January 10, 2010 at 4:34 pm

Thank you for the recipe, I wanted it after the twitter teaser! I love how you call it your holiday cake! That is neat. Hey, do not worry about it having a box base, if it is easy and tastes great, go for it!I have made a rum cake in the past that takes so long to prepare I hardly ever bake it. I will sub yours for the complicated recipe next time,and have a new tradition for my house.
Cheers!
Renee

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Vino Luci Style Reply:

Sounds like a plan; let me know how you like it. Most recipes call for pricking the top of the cake after you turn it out of the pan and pouring the syrup over it then but mine is done while in the pan from the bottom and I always use a wooden spoon. Makes for some great, gooey pockets of rum butter flavor!

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4 Lea Ann January 10, 2010 at 4:48 pm

You are a SINNER! But I still love you and would love a bite of this cake. I was at Costco just a few days ago, darn I hope they still have that pan. This really looks delicious Barb. Happy New Year.

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