Chocolaty-Peanut Butter Encrusted Rum Cake
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 1/2 -ounce milk chocolate candy bar
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1 package yellow cake mix with pudding in the mix
- 1 3/4 -ounce package instant vanilla pudding
- 1/2 cup light rum
- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup light rum
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup crushed peanut butter crunch candy bar (recommended: Butterfinger)
- 4 -ounces milk chocolate candy bar
- 1/8 cup half-and-half
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup chocolate syrup
- 1/4 cup crushed peanut butter crunch candy bar (recommended: Butterfinger)
- Cook's Note: Prepare cake and primary glaze the night before serving.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Lightly spray coat of nonstick spray, then butter and flour bottom of bundt pan.
- Sprinkle chopped pecans onto the buttered pan.
- To make the batter, melt chocolate with 1/4 cup water by microwaving it for approximately 30 seconds and stir.
- In large mixing bowl, add melted chocolate mixture, eggs, oil, cake mix, pudding, and rum.
- Mix well.
- Pour batter in bundt pan and cook for 50 to 60 minutes.
- To make the primary glaze, gently boil butter, sugar, rum, water and crushed Butterfinger candy bar.
- When cake is ready, remove from oven and place on foil-covered hot plate.
- Prick top of cake with fork several times around top.
- Pour glaze over top of cake, saturating evenly.
- Use all of the glaze.
- Let it sit for 25 to 30 minutes.
- Get cake plate and put serving side down over top of bundt cake pan, thus inverting cake.
- Cover cake plate with dome and let sit 4 to 6 hours or overnight.
- To make the secondary glaze, melt milk chocolate candy bar, half-and-half, butter, water, and chocolate syrup.
- Stir well, then heavily drizzle glaze over top of cake and down the sides.
- Sprinkle 1/4 cup of crushed peanut butter crunch bar over top and let fall down sides.
- Serve.
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Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/chocolaty-peanut-butter-encrusted-rum-cake-recipe.html (may not work)