Rum Cake Ingredients: To Prepare:
Cake:
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 package yellow cake mix
1 3 3/4 oz. instant Vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup dark rum
(If using yellow cake mix with pudding already in the mix, omit instant pudding; use 3 eggs instead of 4, 1/3 cup oil instead of 1/2)
Glaze:
1/4 lb. butter
1/4 cup water
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup dark rum
Glaze: Melt butter in sacuepan. Stir in water and sugar. Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir in rum.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees (F).
Grease and flour a 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 with fork.
Spoon and brush glaze evenly over top and sides.
Allow cake to absorb glaze.
Repeat until glaze is used up.
