Our Famous Rum Cake

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      Cake:
    1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
    1 18 1/2 oz. pkg yellow cake mix
     1 3 1/4 oz pkg. Jell-o Vanilla Instant Pudding and Pie filling
     4 eggs
    1/2 cup cold water
    1/2 cup Wesson Oil
    1/2 cup Barcardi dark rum

     Glaze:
    1/4 lb. butter
    1/4 cup cold water
    1 cup granulated sugar
    1/2 cup Barcardi dark rum

     Preheat oven to 325.  Grease and flour 10" tube or 12 cup Bundt pan.  Sprinkle
                 nuts over bottom of pan.  Mix all cake  ingredients together.  Pour batter
    over nuts.  Bake 1 hour.  Cool.  Invert on serving plate.  Prick top.  Drizzle
                 and smooth glaze evenly over top and sides.  Allow cake to absorb glaze.
     Repeat until all glaze is used up.

     For glaze:  melt butter in sauce pan. Stir in water and sugar.  Boil 5
     minutes, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.  Stir in rum.
     

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