BACARDI RUM CAKE

This Bacardi rum cake is lovely and moist. I usually make it around New Years, makes a nice looking dessert for a buffet and the taste is rich and wonderful. From a magazine add, many years ago.

Total Time-  1hr 24min


Ingredients-

• 1 cup chopped pecans or 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 (520 g) package yellow cake mix (You just use the cake mix as is, do not add other ingredients listed on cake box.)
• 1 (92 g) package vanilla instant pudding mix
• 4 eggs
• 1⁄2 cup cold water
• 1⁄2 cup cooking oil
• 1⁄2 cup dark rum or rum

Glaze-

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1⁄4 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup dark rum or rum

Direction-

• Sprinkle nuts over bottom of greased 10 inch tube pan or 12 cup bundt pan.
• Stir together cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, oil and rum.
• Pour batter over nuts.
• Bake at 325 in oven for 1 hour.
• Cool 10 minutes in pan.
• Invert onto serving plate and prick top.
• Glaze-----------------.
• Melt butter in saucepan.
• Stir in water and sugar.
• Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in rum.
• Brush glaze evenly over top and sides of cake.
• Allow cake to absorb glaze.
• Repeat until glaze is used up.

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