Rum Spice Cake Recipes

RUM SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla, lime juice, and lime zest. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, and incorporate well.
• In a separate bowl, combine the bread crumbs, flour, all the spices, baking powder, and salt.
• In another bowl, combine rum and port. Add flour mixture alternately with rum/port mixture into the batter.
• Prepare a 9-inch cake or spring form pan by lining bottom and sides with parchment paper. Fill the pan 3/4 of the way and bake until a skewer comes out of the center of the cake clean, about an 1 hour and 10 minutes.
• Put raisins, prunes, cinnamon sticks, and vanilla beans in a glass jar and cover with mixture of equal parts Jamaican white rum, Jamaican spiced rum, and Port. Cover with a tight fitting lid, label, and date the jar. Put in a cool, dry cupboard. From time to time, check the fruits to see if more liquor is needed, as the fruits will plump and soak up the liquid. Keep the fruit covered in liquor. It is best to allow the fruit to marinated for at least a month for best flavor.

SPICE RUM CAKE

Steps:

• Cake Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix cake mix, milk, cooking oil, sour cream, rum, eggs and cinnamon.
• Beat on low speed until just moistened.
• Turn to medium speed and beat 2 minutes.
• Pour into prepared Bundt pan and bake 35- 40 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes, then remove and cool completely before glazing.
• Glaze Mix powdered sugar, melted margarine and rum.
• If glaze is not quite thin enough to drizzle, you may thin by adding 1/2 teaspoon water at the time to get the consistency you want.
• Drizzle over cake.

EASY RUM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube or Bundt pan. Sprinkle nuts over the bottom of the pan.
• Mix together the cake mix, 1/2 cup dark rum, eggs, 1/2 cup water, oil, and vanilla pudding mix. Pour batter over the nuts in the pan.
• Bake for 1 hour. Cool, and invert cake on a serving plate. Prick the top of the cake.
• To Make The Glaze: Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in 1/8 cup water and the 1/2 cup sugar. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove glaze from heat, and stir in 1/4 cup rum. Drizzle and smooth evenly over the top and sides.

GLAZED SPICED RUM POUND CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour two 9x5-in. loaf pans. In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in rum and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition., Spoon batter into prepared pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 45-50 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool., Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine sugar, butter, water and rum. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat; drizzle over warm cakes. Sprinkle with pecans. Cool completely on wire racks.