I am still looking for a made from scratch chocolate rum cake, but had a box of yellow cake mix so figured I'd give the original yellow/vanilla rum cake a try...
1st thing I wanted to say, I have never bake or even tasted a rum cake, ever...lol The dough was very sticky and climbed the hand mixers beaters and got all over the hand mixer and fell back down. I've never seen that before, but again never made this cake.
From the original recipe, I made 4 changes which I'm hoping for the better...
No nuts
Butter instead of veg. oil
Milk instead of water
Bacardi 151 instead of Dark rum (we're boozers and UFC is on tonight!)
Unsure what rum or how much I'll use for the glaze as ZERO alcohol will get cooked out...I think a 1/2c of 151 would simply make the cake undesirable, lol...I only have capt morgan and 151 on hand. I think I might try a sample of each 151 & capt morgan...
1st thing I wanted to say, I have never bake or even tasted a rum cake, ever...lol The dough was very sticky and climbed the hand mixers beaters and got all over the hand mixer and fell back down. I've never seen that before, but again never made this cake.
From the original recipe, I made 4 changes which I'm hoping for the better...
No nuts
Butter instead of veg. oil
Milk instead of water
Bacardi 151 instead of Dark rum (we're boozers and UFC is on tonight!)
- ---Cake---
- 1 18-1/2 ounce yellow cake mix
- 1 1-3/4 ounce (4-serving size) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk*
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup Bacardi 151
- ---Glaze---
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup rum
Unsure what rum or how much I'll use for the glaze as ZERO alcohol will get cooked out...I think a 1/2c of 151 would simply make the cake undesirable, lol...I only have capt morgan and 151 on hand. I think I might try a sample of each 151 & capt morgan...