Easy Rum Cake

Description

This is an easy recipe for a rum-soaked cake filled with walnuts and a rum glaze.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
  • ½ cup dark rum
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ cup water
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 1 (3.5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
  • ½ cup butter
  • ⅛ cup water
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ¼ cup rum

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt or tube pan.
  2. Make cake: Sprinkle walnuts over the bottom of the prepared pan; set aside.
  3. Mix together cake mix
  4. eggs
  5. dark rum
  6. water
  7. oil
  8. and vanilla pudding mix in a large bowl until well combined. Pour batter over walnuts in the pan.
  9. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
  10. about 1 hour. Cool
  11. then invert cake onto a serving plate. Gently prick holes into the top and sides of cake with a toothpick or skewer.
  12. Make glaze: Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir sugar and water into melted butter; bring to a boil. Cook
  13. stirring constantly
  14. for 5 minutes. Remove glaze from heat; stir in rum.
  15. Drizzle warm glaze over top and sides of cake.

Servings: 12

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