Christmas Recipes

Bacardi Rum Holiday Celebration Cake

Bacardi Rum Holiday Celebration Cake can be baked and soaked several days in advance; store it wrapped in plastic wrap.

Bacardi Rum Holiday Celebration Cake recipe

Yield: 16 servings

Ingredients

Cake

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, room temperature
  • 2/3 cup milk
  • 1/3 cup Bacardi Gold rum, flavored rum, or other spirit
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups chopped pecans (divided use)

Rum Glaze

  • 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup water
  • 1/2 cup rum
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 3 cups confectioners' sugar, divided

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.

Cake

  1. Combine flour, sugars, baking powder, and salt in the bowl of a mixer. Add butter and mix on low speed until butter is worked in completely; the mixture will have a sandy appearance.
  2. In a small bowl, combine milk, rum, and eggs. Whisk to blend. With mixer on low speed, add milk mixture to dry ingredients and beat on medium speed for 3 minutes. Stir in 11/2 cups pecans. Pour batter evenly into pan.
  3. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, until top of cake springs back when touched.
  4. While the cake is baking, make Rum Glaze.
  5. When cake is done, remove from oven and let cool 10 minutes in pan.
  6. Invert the cake onto a rack with a large plate underneath. With a wooden skewer or wooden pick, pierce cake all over, spacing marks about 1 inch apart. Spoon reserved rum syrup over cake to soak in. Transfer cake to a clean plate and pour thickened glaze over top. Immediately sprinkle with reserved pecans.

Rum Glaze

  1. In a saucepan, combine granulated sugarand water and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Add rum, then turn off heat. Add butter and stir until melted. Pour 3/4 cup of syrup into a separate container for moistening the cake.
  2. To the syrup in the pan, add 2 cups confectioners' sugar and whisk until blended. Add 1 more cup confectioners' sugar and whisk until smooth. Add up to 1 more cup confectioners' sugar, as needed to make a thick, pourable glaze.
  3. Glaze and decorate the cake the day it will be served.

Attribution

Posted by Annette at Recipe Goldmine 11/15/2001 10:17 pm.

Photo credit: kbreenbo / CC BY



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