Regine’S Rum Cake
- Cake
- 2 cups all purpose flour (not cake flour)
- 4 large eggs
- 3 teaspoons baking powder (equivalent to 1 tbsp)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 package (about 3 3/4 oz) Jello vanilla or French Vanilla pudding mix - but I have, by the way, made this cake a few times and with success without the pudding mix because I noticed last minute I did not have any.
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup milk (regular or 2%)
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup rum (My favorite is Haitian Barbancourt but is is also good with Appleton or Diplomatico)
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract (equivalent to 1 tbsp)
- Rum Glaze
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (equivalent to 1 stick, or 4 oz, or 8 tbsp). Use only real butter.
- 1/4 cup water (equivalent to 4 tbsp)
- 1/2 cup rum
- 1 cup sugar
- Preheat oven to 325u0b0. Spray (I used a Baking Spray) one 12 cup bundt pan, or two 6 cup bundt pans, or twelve mini bundt pans.
- In bowl (stand alone mixer), place all ingredients for cake and start mixing by hand; then continue beating with a stand alone cake mixer until all ingredients are well mixed (maybe 1 to 2 minutes). You may, however, choose to first beat the eggs separately before you dump all ingredients into bowl.
- Pour batter into 12 cup bundt pan and bake for 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick/skewer inserted around the middle comes out clean. If using two 6 cup Bundt pans, it will take about 40 minutes. If using 12 mini Bundt pans, it will take less about 30 minutes or less. Cool for 15 minutes and invert cake onto a rack. Wash pan and place pan back on top of the cake by making sure the indented sides of the pan coincide with the cake's. Turn pan over so cake fits in nicely and then slowly pour the syrup all over the cake's surface - on top of and around the cake. Leave cake in pan for about 1 hour or until all syrup is absorbed into cake and the top has dried up a bit. Unmold and serve (even better one day after) or wrap as an edible gift. See pictures. Note: If using 2 6 cup Bundt pans, or 12 mini Bundt pans, you will of course need to split the syrup accordingly.
- For the Glaze:rnMelt butter, sugar, and water in saucepan. Remove from heat and add rum. I like to use microwave instead but be careful because the mixture can easily boil and flow all over the microwave..
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Taken from food52.com/recipes/31850-regine-s-rum-cake (may not work)